Catholic Quote by Stephen Greenblatt

“At the same time he could hardly believe what he had been reading. It struck him as verging on madness. This wild confession, this…

— Barry Unsworth

“[I]t seemed to me now that a Catholic church was the right companion for all these horrors. Didn't Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“As it was a time of war between the Catholics and the Huguenots, and as he saw the Catholics exterminate the Huguenots and the…

— Alexandre Dumas

“These people, these neighbors, both Protestant and Catholic alike, who spat at each other with such hatred that it sometimes erupted into violence, did…

— Anna Lee Huber

“I recalled the myth that I had once heard as a university student – thirty-six hidden saints in the world, all of them doing…

— Colum McCann

“Now, life, ordinary, jolly, heathen, human life, is simply chockful of these dead words and meaningless ceremonies. You will not escape from them by…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Didn’t Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn’t it expert in superstition? I somehow doubted that the hospitable plain…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“...two Protestants, amazingly bound to Catholics and bemused at the strange tides of fate that had washed over them; two men left alone by…

— Diana Gabaldon

“It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is the fable of Jesus Christ,…

— Thomas Paine

“The Professor looked like a Protestant saint when the cannibal offered him the choice of taking six wives or being boiled alive. He wanted…

— Joyce Cary

Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him…

— Félix J. Palma

“The world of shadows and superstition that was Victorian England, so well depicted in this 1871 tale, was unique. While the foundations of so…

— Hugh Lamb