Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Lance Morrow

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

Lisa Scottoline

There was no known cure for a Catholic education.

Kyle Kinane

I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I cant enjoy anything.

John Adams

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

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.

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.

Rick Santorum

George W. Bush is the first Catholic president of the United States.

Stanley Hauerwas

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

Woody Allen

There's nothing sexier than a lapsed Catholic.

Saint Augustine

To sing is to pray twice.

Saint Augustine

Beware of bad Catholics.

Saint Augustine

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

Saint Augustine

The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

Robin Williams

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

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.

Saint Augustine

Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself.

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.

Liam Gallagher

I was brought up Catholic. Then I had a joint and looked at the world differently.

Liam Neeson

Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends.

Thomas Aquinas

It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.

Thomas Aquinas

There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.

Thomas Aquinas

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

Thomas Aquinas

What does it take to become a saint? Will it.

Therese of Lisieux

You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.

Therese of Lisieux

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

Terry Eagleton

I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.