Catholic famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
-- Aaron Neville -
I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
-- Abel Ferrara -
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
-- Abel Ferrara -
And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
-- Abraham Cowley -
I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas is closer to Christianity than those of Jewish liberalism or even atheistic Marxism...
-- Adolf Hitler -
The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church. This treaty shows the whole world clearly and unequivocally that the assertion that National Socialism is hostile to religion is a lie.
-- Adolf Hitler -
In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming into the slightest conflict with his religious convictions. The mighty common struggle which both carried on against the destroyer of Aryan humanity had, on the contrary, taught them mutually to respect and esteem one another.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up his sleeve.
-- Adolf Hitler -
You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
-- Al McGuire -
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
-- Alan Alda -
Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty
-- Albert Einstein -
Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.
-- Albert Einstein -
One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
-- Alison Bechdel -
New revelations regarding faith or morals ... have always been abhorred and challenged in the Church ... Hence, the Sovereign Pontiffs, the Councils, and the Fathers have been most careful to reject all novelties or new doctrines on matters of faith which differed from those already received.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Those who are seeking the true religion will never find it outside the Catholic Church alone, because, in every other religion, if they trace it up to the author, they will find some impostor whose imagination furnished a mass of sophisms and errors
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the mind to some spiritual, or, at least, indifferent object. It is useful to combat other bad thoughts face to face, but not thoughts of impurity.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
I went to a Catholic school but did not really fit in.
-- Amber Heard -
He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.
-- Ambrose -
We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?
-- Ambrose -
Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.
-- Amy Sedaris -
In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.
-- Andres Serrano -
I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.
-- Andres Serrano -
As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.
-- Andres Serrano -
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in promoting an evolution doctrine as regards the mechanical formation of the solar system... but his constant dread of persecution, both from Catholics and Protestants, led him steadily to veil his thoughts and even to suppress them. ...Since Roger Bacon, perhaps, no great thinker had been so completely abased and thwarted by theological oppression.
-- Andrew Dickson White -
Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from his fellow-Protestants more bitter than anything he had ever experienced from Catholics.
-- Andrew Dickson White -
People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so good to pagans, too. High-pressure evangelization strikes me as an attempt to deprive people of their freedom of choice.
-- Andrew Greeley -
It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.
-- Andrew Greeley -
If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.
-- Andrew Greeley -
The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.
-- Andrew Greeley -
For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.
-- Ann Widdecombe -
If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.
-- Anna Quindlen -
I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.
-- Anne Rice -
A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.
-- Anselm of Canterbury -
The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit.
-- Anthony of Padua -
Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?
-- Anton Chekhov -
Portugal was born in the shadow of the Catholic Church and religion, from the beginning it was the formative element of the soul of the nation and the dominant trait of character of the Portuguese people.
-- Antonio de Oliveira Salazar -
I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.
-- Antony Gormley -
In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.
-- Arthur Peacocke -
The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each successive pope, has been increasingly orientated towards the U.S. The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican's financial deals in the U.S. alone were so big that very often it sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars at one time.
-- Avro Manhattan -
The Catholic church is the biggest financial power,   wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a   greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution,   corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole   globe.
-- Avro Manhattan -
And I have found that when we Catholics, in the spirit of love and charity, declare our faith boldly and with conviction, we are more likely to find kindred spirits. This is how we must comport ourselves if we are to fulfill our Lord's command in the Gospel of John (17:21), Ut unum sint, that all may be one.
-- Benedict Groeschel -
He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.
-- Benedict of Nursia -
Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.
-- Benedict of Nursia -
Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.
-- Benedict of Nursia -
The Jew...is not content merely to destroy Christianity, but he preaches the gospel of Judaism; he not only assails the Catholic or the Protestant faith, but he incites to the unbelief, and then imposes on those whose faith he has undermined his own conception of the world, of morality and of life. He is engaged in his historic mission, the annihilation of the religion of Christ.
-- Bernard Lazare -
The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judiazizes, he destroys the Catholic or Protestant faith, he provokes indifference but he imposes his idea of the world of morals and of life upon those whose faith he ruins. He works at his age old task, the annilation of the religion of Christ.
-- Bernard Lazare -
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
I grew up a Catholic and I dont want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but theres a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.
-- Bernhard Langer -
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
-- Bill Condon -
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.
-- Bill McCartney -
I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.
-- Bill McCartney -
I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.
-- Billy Corgan -
And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.
-- Bob Gunton -
I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.
-- Bradley Cooper -
Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I cant say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I dont do it, it plagues me.
-- Bradley Cooper -
I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
-- Brendan Behan -
And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not.
-- Bret Easton Ellis -
I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.
-- Brian Dennehy -
I do not want "Mormonism" to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins.
-- Brigham Young -
I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.
-- Broderick Crawford -
By your work you show what you love and what you know.
-- Bruno of Cologne -
What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.
-- Buddy Hackett -
With a name like that, he must be Catholic, right?
-- Burt Hochberg -
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
-- Carl E. Olson -
Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
-- Carl E. Olson -
The best way not to find the bed too cold is to go to bed colder than the bed is.
-- Carlo Borromeo -
I feel like a fox in a henhouse full of Catholic girls.
-- Cate Tiernan -
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.
-- Charles Tupper -
Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course.
-- Charlton Heston -
You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.
-- Cheech Marin -
A Catholic priest who’s been sending threatening notes to Conan O’Brien was charged with stalking in the fourth degree. It just goes to show you that people can become obsessed with redheads.
-- Chelsea Handler -
The band and I were leading at a Youth Specialties convention. We were asked to back up Matt Maher for one of the sessions. Matt handed us the chord charts and, with less than 5 minutes of practice, we were playing it live. I fell in love with this song immediately. You can't hear the message of God's sufficient grace too many times. Matt is a great lead worshiper and is a part of Life Teen, a growing worship movement in the Catholic Church.
-- Chris Tomlin -
I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the 'circle the wagons' mentality revictimized the innocent, coddled the guilty, and made matters worse for everyone.
-- Christine Pelosi -
Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore.
-- Christopher -
And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect of Mohammet and of all idolatries and heresies, resolved to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the said
-- Christopher Columbus -
It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it
-- Christopher Meloni -
Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.
-- Christopher West -
Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.
-- Christopher West -
Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful.
-- Christopher West -
The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes it, perfects it. Sexual union, then, is where the words of the wedding vows become flesh.
-- Christopher West -
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.
-- Christopher West -
Why was Christ so compassionate towards sexual sinners, especially women? Think of the woman caught in adultery. Think of the prostitute who wept at his feet. Could it be because Christ knew that these women, who had been deceived by counterfeit loves, were actually looking for him, the true Bridegroom?
-- Christopher West -
If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.
-- Christopher West -
My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even
-- Cindy Sherman -
When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.
-- Clement of Alexandria -
The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none of us seemed more religious than anyone else, no one ever questioned the rituals or the basic tenets of belief.
-- Colm Toibin -
Have you not often met poor old women who are most faithful to the pious recitation of the Rosary? You also must do all that you can to recite it with fervour. Get right down, at the feet of Jesus: it is a good thing to make oneself small in the presence of so great a God.
-- Columba Marmion -
May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.
-- Cyprian -
He [Christ] protects their faith and gives strength to believers in proportion to the trust that each man who receives that strength is willing to place in him.
-- Cyprian
