Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Francis

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

It's true, harm to Catholics must always be avoided, and all of us do this...but not at the price of the truth!

Pope Francis

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Peter Mullan

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

Pope John XXIII

The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.

Mother Teresa

If in coming face to face with God we accept Him in our lives, then we are converting. We become a better Hindu, a better Muslim, a better Catholic, a better whatever we are. ... What God is in your mind you must accept.

Mother Teresa

Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other, and have the courage to accept each other as we are. Do not be surprised or become preoccupied at each other's failures - rather, see and find in each other the good, for each one of us is created in the image of God.

Robert H. Schuller

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

Robert Duvall

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

Richard Rohr

We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious devotions that usually have little power to actually change us or call our ego assumptions into question.

Robin Williams

I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.

Samantha Bee

It's very Canadian of me - or maybe it's more the Catholic schoolgirl in me - but I always really want to do a good job.

Warren Buffett

You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Let Catholics build their own churches and works.

Salma Hayek

Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence.

Gordon Gee

You can’t trust those damn Catholics.

Jim Gaffigan

I would say I'm - in the show, I'm a cultural Catholic, which is what I was.

Jim Gaffigan

That's not to say that I'm a well-informed Catholic. I'm still in idiot.

Jim Gaffigan

I went to a Catholic University and there's something about being a Catholic-American. You know, St. Patrick's Day is, I'm Irish-Catholic. There's alcoholism in my family. It's like I've got to be Catholic, right?

Jim Gaffigan

I was still rooting for Notre Dame.It's like there's the cultural Catholic experience.

Jim Gaffigan

The reason I say I'm a horrible person is I don't want myself to be presented as somebody who's a great Catholic.

Christopher Hitchens

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

Gary Bauer

Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

Fulton J. Sheen

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Fulton J. Sheen

If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.

Fulton J. Sheen

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

Jim Caviezel

I just try to be the best Catholic.

Jeaniene Frost

If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to.

Ethel Waters

Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.

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.