Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Arinze

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

Harri Holkeri

When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

Ignatius of Antioch

I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.

Ignatius of Antioch

Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church

Ignatius of Loyola

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

Ignatius of Loyola

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

Wesley Clark

Gert was always of the mind that she wouldn't go to another church except the Catholic Church. So when I would date her in New York City, and later when we went to Oxford before we got married, we always went to the Catholic church.

Georgetown University can't be Catholic if the faculty is not on board.

Frederik Pohl

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

Meghan Markle

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.

Every hand shot up - it was unanimous, ... I know this is unusual for the Catholic Church; we don't ask. But I wanted them to decide, and since we struggle here, this was as much about faith as it was generosity.

St. Patrick is the patron saint of the Archdiocese of New York. As such, we celebrate March 17 as a feast day and all Catholics in the archdiocese get a dispensation from the Lenten requirements for that day.

team with the white evangelical church and the Catholic church to deal with moral issues.

This was intended to be about the Catholic Church.

There's no question that they're facing challenges right now, I think we all feel very confident that it has and it can make a significant contribution to the Catholic dialogue in the United States.

Martin McGuinness

The tragedy of all this is that we are seeing within the talks process unionists refusing to negotiate, whilst outside the talks process Catholics are being murdered.

Terry Wogan

I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a sin as long as you don't take pleasure from it.

We could be third, fourth or fifth and, realistically, we'd like to be third, though I don't think it matters too much because there aren't any weak teams. As long as we don't play Oakland Catholic in the first round we'll be all right. We'd like to see them sometime, just not in the first round.

Alice McDermott

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

Mario Cuomo

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.

The neighborhood children told me that their Polish Catholic priest said that they could no longer play with me because I was a Protestant.

Malachy McCourt

I hope the Catholics don't get a hold of him and make him a saint. That would make him most miserable and unhappy, because he would not think he was worthy." ()

Rachel Tucker

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.

James Dyson

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

Evo Morales

I am Catholic. But I am opposed to a monopoly when it comes to faith.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

H. L. Mencken

The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.

Jean Guitton

The intention of Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy in such a way that it should almost coincide with the Protestant liturgy - but what is curious is that Paul VI did that to get as close as possible to the Protestant Lord's supper... there was with Paul VI an ecumenical intention to remove, or at least to correct, or at least to relax, what was too Catholic, in the traditional sense, and, I repeat, to get the Catholic Mass closer to the Calvinist Mass.

Honore de Balzac

Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

I don't think this is a show about the priesthood. This is a show about guys who are discerning their vocation to the priesthood. You learn a lot of things about priests, about the Catholic Church. But it's really about these guys and their struggles between two goods.

Imelda Staunton

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

Jack Kerouac

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

Siobhan Fallon Hogan

I don't really say, 'Is this script Catholic or not?'. But if I find it to be immoral, or it doesn't sit right with me, which happens a lot these days because there's a lot of garbage being written... I'm like, 'I'm not doing this.'