"I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American."

-- John Cusack

#Catholic Quotes #Raised Quotes

“Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.”
“[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.”
“There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.”
“Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 11, 2017
“Give other Christians permission to be different from you. You're not the only Christ-follower in the world, and neither are you the most committed. Your way of loving Jesus is neither the only way for the best. If you don't know that, your Christian world is way too small.”

Source : Will Davis (2011). “10 Things Jesus Never Said: And Why You Should Stop Believing Them”, p.101, Revell
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the President of the United States is authorized to present, on behalf of the Congress, a gold medal of appropriate design to the family of the late Honorable Leo J. Ryan in recognition of his distinguished service as a Member of Congress and the fact of his untimely death by assassination while performing his responsibilities as a Member of the United States House of Representatives.”

Source : "Act Awarding Leo Ryan Congressional Gold Medal". United States Congress, H.R. 3348 Public Law 98 - 159, November 18, 1983.
“Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than it is in the picture. The process is in fact habit-forming.”
“The best thing about being Catholic is that you're a part of something bigger than yourself and you're a part of the community that's been there for 2000 years and it'll be there till the end of time.”

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