Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neve Campbell

I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.

Nic Pizzolatto

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

Kingsley Amis

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Marg Helgenberger

I'm Catholic, he's Jewish, and it was just easier to elope.

Katie Holmes

I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.

Patsy Kensit

I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church - and there was nobody left to be concerned.

Pat Robertson

I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.

Paul Begala

I try hard to be a good Catholic.

Paul Samuelson

For better or worse, US Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian. You know what a cafeteria catholic is?

Michael Scheuer

One of the reasons they didn't go to Bosnia, bin Laden has explained extensively, was because they couldn't establish a base anywhere. Not in Catholic Croatia. Not in Orthodox Serbia. So they sent some trainers and a lot of money.

Chris Matthews

The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.

George Meyer

I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

Milan Kundera

Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech Catholics persecuted during the Stalinist terror, I felt the deepest solidarity with them. What separated us, the belief in God, was secondary to what united us. In Prague, they hanged the Socialists and the priests. Thus a fraternity of the hanged was born.

John C. Wright

If Vulcans had a church, they’d be Catholics.

If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.

Norman Vincent Peale

Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.

Helen Oyeyemi

The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.

Hilaire Belloc

I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative!

Hilaire Belloc

The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.

Hilaire Belloc

When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.

Kurt Braunohler

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

John Adams

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

James Larkin

I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.

Shane Claiborne

We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.

John Waters

My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior -- BEFORE the Reformation.

John Waters

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

Martin Luther

It is easier to live as a Protestant, but better to die as a Catholic.

Ray Charles

I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God.

Sitting Bull

Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?

Michael Moore

I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.

Emo Philips

I'm not Catholic, but I gave up picking my belly button for lint.

Andrew Greeley

The Catholic imagination is metaphorical or sacramental. It sees God as present in the world. The Protestant imagination, the dialectical imagination, wants to preserve God from the possibility of idolatry by identifying with His creatures. Catholicism has no problem with that.