Quote by Yann Martel Download Open image ““Catholics have a reputation for severity, for judgment that comes down heavily.”” — Yann Martel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Then [Catholics] owe [pope] the loyalty that is expressed in speaking the truth to him - and that puts a premium on knowing whether… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“We Catholics have not only to do our best to keep down our own warring passions and live decent lives, which will often be… — Ronald A. Knox Copy Share Image
“So I sit and endure the stares and the pangs and twinges of Catholic guilt, knowing that I am doing the right thing if… — Pete Hautman Copy Share Image
“Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The Catholics get rid of the difficulty by setting up an infallible Pope, and consenting formally to accept his verdicts, but the Protestants simply… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“result, he’s firmly persuaded that the Catholic Church must always speak its truths to the surrounding culture, without adjusting those teachings to make them… — Robert E. Barron Copy Share Image
“The best I can tell you in that way is that I’m much more at ease with fellow-Catholics than I am with heathens or… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Many of the bishops had purchased their sees, and most of these naturally preferred doing violence to their opinions rather than lose their revenues.” — George Finlay Copy Share Image
“doctrines like papal infallibility and the Catholic teaching on marriage and social morality are believed with a conviction that scandalizes those who do not… — John A. Hardon Copy Share Image
I think the strength of the Catholic church is that when it does finally identify a problem, it works to resolve it. — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image