Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Sagal

Look out sinners because if you do not go to confession, confession will come to you. The Catholic Church in northern England has launched a mobile confession unit called the Mercy Bus.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

John Lydon

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god.

JWoww

I’ve been a nun. A Catholic nun.

Otto von Bismarck

The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.

Martin Luther

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

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?

Pat Buchanan

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

Juanes

I come from a very, very Catholic family. We used to pray the rosary every day after dinner.

Nic Pizzolatto

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

Pat Robertson

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

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.

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.

Mark Wahlberg

Being a Catholic is the most important aspect of my life.

Neve Campbell

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

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.

Park Chan-wook

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

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.

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.

Shane Claiborne

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

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?

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.'

N. T. Wright

I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God.

Paul Bettany

I was born a Catholic and now I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm something but I'm not a believer any more.

Martin Sheen

It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

I think our kids just kind of lost it at the final whistle. Catholic wanted to finish and they did.

Stephen Frears

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