Best 1342 quotes in «catholic quotes» category

I just try to be the best Catholic.

I know many Catholic priests and nuns who use the Buddhist teachings to become better Catholics, and Jews who use them to become better Jews. Why not?! It just takes us towards more deeply recognizing our original nature, which is what we all share after all.

I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

I know that you observe Christmas Day as you learned it at home. I do not observe it. However, as assistant director of this prison, I allow all the Catholics to observe freely and with some joy this day in this home.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.

I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

I'll never forget what a Catholic priest told me; he said, "If you try to padlock the door, you have to give people an alternative path - an alternative, safer path. You can't padlock, and you shouldn't padlock a burning building.

I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.

I'm a believer who loves Jesus and I work with everybody else whatever their denomination; Catholic, Orthodox, charismatic, main line, evangelicals, anyone who loves Jesus, I'll work with them.

I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.

I'm a Catholic, and I have always been fascinated by not just my religion, but religion in general, in the sense that it is the ultimate brand that they're trying to sell. Whereas Ford is trying to sell cars, the Vatican is trying to sell salvation, which is a much better product to be peddling.

I'm a Catholic, raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life. It helped lead me through a war, leads me today.

I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.

I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys. Because to me, they are very specific, fascinating, sometimes brilliant, judgmental killjoys who rarely agreed on anything except that Catholics are going to Hell.

I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.

I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide.

I may not be Hispanic, but I'm close. I'm Catholic with a mustache[]

I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.

I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.

I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

I'm disappointed that my own Catholic Church has decided that capital punishment is wrong. Which is pretty hypocritical if you think about it, because they wouldn't even have a religion if it wasn't for capital punishment.

I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church.

I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.

I'm eradicating the word Protestant even out of my vocabulary. .. I'm protesting anything. .. it's time for Catholics and non-Catholics to come together as one in the Spirit and one in the Lord.

I'm fascinated by Catholic mystics, even though I grew up Mennonite in Pennsylvania.

I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.

I’m indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John’s in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.

I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

"I’m not Catholic, I’m not Orthodox…" and I wouldn’t even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don’t want to divide people so anything that I say is something that must be so big and great that it did encompass everyone and it’s love.

I'm not an evangelical, because that means that I exclude the Catholics and main-liners, and Orthodox.

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced.

I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.

I'm Roman Catholic and I believe very strongly in the power of prayer.

I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.

I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

I'm very happy and being raised Catholic I assume it will end tomorrow. The rug will be pulled out from under me and someone will say, now go to your real job, shoveling poop somewhere.

In Bolivia there are Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist churches, and so on. In Bolivia there are indigenous religious beliefs like the rite of Pachamama Mother Earth, which shows us that Mother Earth is our life, we are born out of the Earth we live on the Earth and return to the Earth.

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

In a world that has lost a sense of sin, one sin remains: Thou shalt not make people feel guilty (except, of course, about making people feel guilty). In other words, the only sin today is to call something a sin.