Top 100 Quotes About Catholic
#1. Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character ... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.
George W. Bush
#3. Not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent. It is like a fruit salad; there's everything. There are violent persons of this religion.
Pope Francis
#4. When Lafayette met him in 1775, the first volume of Raynal's 1770 History of the Two Indies had already been banned, which is to say it was a popular success, the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books being the unofficial bestseller list of the day.
Sarah Vowell
#5. As a man, I was a failure. A pathetic teacher lusting after Catholic school girls in short skirts. As a monster, I'm superb. It's comforting to know my place in the world.
Thomm Quackenbush
#6. If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.
Martin Freeman
#7. I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.
Lou Holtz
#8. I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.
Peter Jurasik
#9. You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held
Pope Leo XIII
#10. The only other person attending who was close to her age was Father St. Laurent, a devastatingly good-looking Roman Catholic priest who made the RC's vows of celibacy seem like a crime against the human gene pool.
Julia Spencer-Fleming
#11. The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.
W. H. Auden
#12. I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.
Sofia Vergara
#13. There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
Jack White
#14. 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.
Ziggy Marley
#15. Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.
Linda Cardellini
#16. Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom.
Pope John Paul II
#17. My dad was a Buddhist when I was young. So, at a point when I begging become Catholic he was saying "no" and imparting Buddhist precepts.
Sean Astin
#18. I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.
Rachel Cusk
#19. Never do anything that your heart tells you is displeasing to Mary; and in addition, never deny her anything that you know she would welcome and desire from you.
Joseph Cafasso
#20. I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
Don DeLillo
#21. For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope ... and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.
Hugo Chavez
#22. We were sent to the Judengottesdienst, the children's service at the synagogue on Saturday afternoons. The maid was supposed to take us. But she was a Catholic, like most Austrians, and she feared the synagogue; and my mother - a working woman, dependent on her help - feared the maid.
Edith Hahn Beer
#23. I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience. But I also know it's enriched my life, my dad being a Catholic.
Johnny Vegas
#24. The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.
Donald Wuerl
#25. 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
#26. I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.
Robin Williams
#27. Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#28. You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!
Sofia Vergara
#29. When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love, and that love is the Holy Spirit.
Meister Eckhart
#30. Well, she asked him questions about his age and his attainments. The fact that he was a Catholic gave her pause, but when I explained to her that the present Pope was a well-meaning sort of chap, she said she was prepared to meet him halfway.
Elizabeth Cadell
#31. I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?
Liam Neeson
#32. I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.
Jacob Lew
#33. I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
Alison Bechdel
#34. Catholic girls with tiny little mustaches.
Frank Zappa
#35. I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church ... I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion.
Tom Araya
#36. Be a Catholic: When you kneel before an altar, do it in such a way that others may be able to recognize that you know before whom you kneel.
Maximilian Kolbe
#37. The Roman Catholic church ... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.
Robin Morgan
#38. I wanted to shut my mind, that my thoughts might close
on my own peace, I wanted to close
the peace of my love in my heart
like dew in a dark rose."
From "Philip Speaks
Caryll Houselander
#39. I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows in how I arrange things. It's always little altars.
Robert Mapplethorpe
#40. I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.
Diego Rivera
#41. Protestants do not very often disagree with what Catholics believe, but they do very often disagree with what they think Catholics believe.
Dwight Longenecker
#42. It did matter to get out of bed. There were webs to weave. Strings to grasp. Packages to deliver. Conversations to start. Thoughts to be expressed. Sams to slam into. Oceans to swim. And sad little men hiding in electrical sockets, waiting to be born of the human imagination.
Bud Macfarlane Jr.
#43. I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
Brendan Behan
#44. I think the strength of the Catholic church is that when it does finally identify a problem, it works to resolve it.
Donald Wuerl
#45. Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
St. Jerome
#46. Every day after school for 10 years, I was on the set of 'Married ... with Children,' which is a really funny and perverse place for a little girl in a Catholic school uniform to grow up.
Meghan Markle
#47. Most of us know that our heart is our center, not our head. But apologetics gets at the heart through the head. The head is important precisely because it is a gate to the heart. We can love only what we know.
Peter Kreeft
#48. Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.
Alice Von Hildebrand
#49. I'm a spiritual person. I'm not very religious. I was raised Catholic, but I am influenced a lot by Buddhism and Hinduism.
Rodrigo Santoro
#50. May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.
Cyprian
#51. Let us sing as we go. May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the joy of our hope.
Pope Francis
#52. I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.
Patricia Heaton
#53. He touched me. We kissed and we held hands sometimes. It was proper. Do you think I should have been with him in that way?" "Hell, no. He's probably not capable." "He's married now. They have children." "Must be Catholic." "What makes you say that?" "Virgin births.
Ellen O'Connell
#54. 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
#55. There is an old Belfast joke about the man stopped at a roadblock and asked his religion. When he replies that he is an atheist he is asked, Protestant or Catholic atheist?
Christopher Hitchens
#57. REGINALD BURNABY THE GREAT (variously identified as a defrocked Roman Catholic priest from Galway, an ex-convict from Liverpool, if not an escaped convict from that seaport city)
Joyce Carol Oates
#58. Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle.
Josemaria Escriva
#59. Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
#60. In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict.
Peter Maurin
#61. I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.
Mike Judge
#62. When a politician spends a million on himself, we rally and call him a thief. But when a cardinal spends the same amount on his attire, we kneel down and kiss his hand.
Justin Villanueva
#63. Well I wasn't really attacking the religious beliefs, I was attacking the formality of the rituals of the Catholic church; however, people took it wrongly.
Tom Lehrer
#64. The beauty of the Catholic church is that it has a sacramental structure that can hold its own with the best out of any tradition. It has a mystical system and content that can hold its own with the best out of Tibet ... its an amazing tradition, but I think you need to be critical.
John O'Donohue
#65. I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.
Therese Of Lisieux
#66. 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
#67. Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we are, where we come from, where we must go, what path we must take in life ...
Pope Benedict XVI
#68. As expected, the church lady grumbled something incoherent and put Bridget's call on hold. A peppy rendition of "City of God" blared as hold music just long enough for Bridget to start to sing along with the chorus. Catholic brainwashing at its best.
Gretchen McNeil
#69. A desperate plea to the Trinity
is not something you can just
apologize for in the morning
-Drunk Dialing the Divine
Amber Koneval
#70. Let's say 'Yes' to life and 'No' to death.
Pope Francis
#71. The Church is a collection of poor sinners. The Catholic Church is a collection of 1.1 billion very poor sinners. That's a lot of original sins, and it is no wonder we have trouble.
Benedict Groeschel
#72. A Catholic understanding of priesthood is so strongly rooted in the historic actions of Jesus and in all their antecedents in the place of sacrifice in life. And those things ... they are rooted to the role of the man.
Vincent Nichols
#73. James II's second wife, an Italian Catholic princess called Mary (at the time, there was an edict whereby all female royals were to be called Mary to confuse future readers of history books),
Stephen Clarke
#74. Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor that it is more open-minded to think that the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar is a great, wonderful, powerful symbol.
Her response was, If it's only a symbol, to hell with it.
Flannery O'Connor
#75. He has told us that He is the hungry one. He is the naked one. He is the thirsty one. He is the one without a home. He is the one who is suffering. These are our treasures, she said, looking at the rows of pallets in the caravanserai. They are Jesus.
Mother Teresa
#76. He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.
Ambrose
#77. Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don't know you're having one until you're right in the middle of it.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#78. I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.
John Cusack
#79. It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And in 'I'd Do Anything,' I've had so much support from folks back home, no matter what side they're on.
Rachel Tucker
#80. Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.
Richard Morris
#81. Young sir," he said, "you speak like an expert. And an expert, I can assure you, from a long association with them, is someone who has gone to considerable pains to be absolutely wrong.
Leonard Holton
#82. I was raised Catholic and I went to church until I was 16. I went through a phase when I was 15 of being quite fanatically Catholic. I was going to church a lot, receiving communion, saying the Rosary, praying, all that stuff. But when I started scrutinizing it, it just fell apart so quickly.
Robert Crumb
#83. Mennonites are so called because they followed Menno Simons, a sixteenth-century Dutch Catholic priest
Mark Kurlansky
#84. There's only one difference between Jews and Catholics. Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it.
Elayne Boosler
#85. The best way not to find the bed too cold is to go to bed colder than the bed is.
Carlo Borromeo
#86. The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.
Nancy Gibbs
#88. I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt of lightning if I didn't.
Chuck Feeney
#89. If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the Church the benefit of the doubt and carefully study her reasons for rejecting contraception, homosexual acts, and women's ordination?
Carl E. Olson
#90. Abortion is a denial of one of those powers which make women women.
Janet E. Smith
#91. Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
Victor LaValle
#92. It's a joyful thing, being a Catholic. I can't even think about sex without thinking about bodily waste.
Kevin Smith
#93. In 1984, I gave a speech at Notre Dame titled 'Religious Belief and Public Morality.' I said that Catholic legislators will live by the laws of the church because we want to stay in the club.
Mario Cuomo
#94. My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.
Isabelle Huppert
#95. I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.
Gunter Grass
#96. I was baptized Catholic but I was Church of Oprah. If you are a person on
Shonda Rhimes
#97. Forbidden? Listen, I was a lawyer, and I know the law. I was also a Catholic, and I used to know whole sections of the Bible by heart. What do you mean by 'forbidden'?
Paulo Coelho
#98. 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
#99. [The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.
Voltairine De Cleyre
#100. But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
