Quotes About Roman Catholicism

#1. Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

Camille Paglia

#2. Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.

H.G.Wells

#3. I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism.

Peter Singer

#4. When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

Ralph Fiennes

#5. Mother, with her upbringing in the primitive Baptist church, believed that converting to Roman Catholicism was a step upward in the social order. Of course she was wrong; when I grew up in the South, a Roman Catholic was the weirdest thing you could be.

Pat Conroy

#6. Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#7. There's a great deal about Roman Catholicism that I basically disagree with. For instance, the doctrine of Mary which ... I have studied that stuff and I simply don't think that has any mileage at all biblically, theologically, and I've got some friends who are very disappointed that I say that.

N. T. Wright

#8. I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. Modern Roman Catholicism has no quarrel with the Big Bang, with a Universe 15 billion or so years old, with the first living things arising from prebiological molecules, or with humans evolving

Carl Sagan

#10. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

C.S. Lewis

#11. The source is knowledge. Wanna go to college, or wanna be garbage?

Big Daddy Kane

#12. Political correctness is often the attempt to make sentimentality socially obligatory or legally enforceable.

Theodore Dalrymple

#13. No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.

Cyprian

#14. Everything is what you make of it, even yourself.

Joseph Goebbels

#15. Not many people like it when they get criticism. Of course, if you have someone who does tell you and you do have a rapport, that's great. But don't rely on it. You have to rely on yourself.

Itzhak Perlman

#16. But even the coldest hate can shift into something warmer if given enough time, just as an ugly caterpillar can turn into a beautiful butterfly.

Morgan Rhodes

#17. You know all about love, but that is not enough. You must also learn that hate comes from God as well, that it too is in the Lord's service. And in times like these, with the world fallen to the state it has, hate serves God more than love.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#18. If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway.

David Nicholls

#19. A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

Natalie Wood

#20. M'Lord, I know from history that once upon a time in a much earlier Church, a vocation to the priesthood meant a call from the bishop, not necessarily a call from God. And I heard the Bishop of Rome himself call you to be that which you have now become by ordination and consecration.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#21. What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under the
same roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?

Michel De Montaigne

#22. In spite of the Puritan-Yankee equation of virtue with well-being, Negroes had excellent reasons for doubting that money was made or kept by any very striking adherence to the Christian virtues; it certainly did not work that way for black Christians.

James Baldwin

#23. People are much more fascinated by your interests than they are by your opinions.

Arlene Francis

#24. All certainty
that comes after the 'original sin' of dismantling the matter-of-fact
world full of routine and short of reflection must be a manufactured
certainty, a blatantly and unashamedly 'made-up' certainty,
burdened with all the inborn vulnerability of human-made decisions.

Zygmunt Bauman