Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Alda

I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.

Alan Alda

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.

Arthur Peacocke

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

Antony Gormley

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

Denis McDonough

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

Denis Leary

I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.

Bill Maher

I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

Bernard of Clairvaux

We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Action and contemplation are...

Nic Pizzolatto

I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a novel that was the novel I wanted to write, and got a couple of good reviews but no real traction. I had no idea how to get a job in TV.

Simon Hoggart

What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?

We felt like this was a must-win game for us. We felt that if we were going to have any shot at getting to the Catholic League playoffs, we had to win tonight. It was a big game in the league.

Anton Chekhov

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

Richard Garnett

Through most of our history a lot of Americans would have been freaked out by the idea of more than one, ... For a long time there was the one Catholic seat and one Jewish seat.

Kurt Braunohler

For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.

Make no mistake: Your Catholic family and mine - not some disembodied Catholic institution - are the financial targets of these lawsuits,

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Catholics should be proselytizing about a God who is love, who represents a hereafter where there's no hell, who wants you to lead a life where you can confess your sins and feel much better afterwards. Those are lovely concepts of God.

Billy Connolly

I was brought up as a Catholic. I've got A-level guilt.

Billy Connolly

I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.

Brigham Young

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.

Camille Guaty

I went to a Catholic school, so of course we had to wear uniforms. My only form of expression was in shoes and the style of my hair.

We won't be looking past Catholic to Westminster or anything like that. Monday is what we are looking for.

Elizabeth Strout

Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything

Mark Fuhrman

Shortly after her feeding tube is removed, Terri Schiavo receives the Catholic ceremony of last rites. Michael Schiavo stays in a room down the hall. He remains at his wife's side throughout the day, except when her immediate family comes to see Terri.

Roger Mahony

Since Roe v. Wade, there have been a lot of Catholic politicians doing and saying things that would not be in line with the church's teaching.

She needs to do better with white Catholic men from the Midwest.

Mom, can we go Catholic so we can get communion wafers and booze?

Stanley Hauerwas

Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined congregational life.

Natascha McElhone

My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.

We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?

He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.