Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 Hagee

Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

Garrison Keillor

Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.

Francois Fenelon

To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within.

Joe Biden

And Bobby [Jindal] and I are both Catholics.

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.

John Cusack

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.

John Cusack

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

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.

Maggie Gallagher

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

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 Bright

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.

Billy Joel

You Catholic girls start much too late But sooner or later it comes down to fate I might as well be the one.

This was intended to be about the Catholic Church.

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.

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.

Park Chan-wook

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

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.

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.