Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Geoffrey Fisher

I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.

Chris Hayes

I was looking, a piece in the "L.A. Times" about a paper called "The Menace" back in 1915, that was railing against Catholics and it said all sorts of things about them. They are essentially a fifth column. They are crypto fascists, that they said if we were compelled to live in this term with Romanists, that`s their term of Catholics, the Romanists will have to be taught their place in. Was that bigotry or were they correct back then to look at Catholicism as fundamentally alien and threatening to the American way of life?

George Carlin

Never forget that Hitler was a Catholic.

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.

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

Stephen Frears

I'm Jewish; I'm not religious at all, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Catholic politics.

Flannery O'Connor

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

It was a wing and a prayer. We're a Catholic school, so it had to be answered.

It's a way of helping people to learn more about the great patrimony of Catholic music that's been largely neglected by the church since the Second Vatican Council.

It's going to be tough. One thing we have to try not to do is get off to a slow start. They've got a lot of height with the Clapper girl but the thing I respect about Newark Catholic is that everybody plays their role. We'll just try to stretch the court out 94 feet and play our style.

It's from investment income and other things. Whatever the diocese has there is invested in things like the St. Vincent de Paul Society, the CYO (Catholic Youth Organization) and other kinds of Catholic organizations and things that we've done over the years.

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.

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.

It's the salvation a tournament gives you that you're looking to find. You have a chance for redemption. We have so many Catholic schools in the league, I guess we can say it's absolution. We can have all our sins absolved with a good weekend.

It's like a little laboratory of Catholic social thought. There are so many good things going on here.

Evo Morales

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

James Dyson

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

Douglas Hyde

For the first time in Ireland within my recollection, Catholic and Protestant, Unionist and Nationalist, landlord and tenant, priest and parson, all work hand in hand in the interest of Ireland's life and intellectuality.

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.

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.

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.

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!