Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Francis

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Peter Mullan

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

Pope John XXIII

The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.

Mother Teresa

If in coming face to face with God we accept Him in our lives, then we are converting. We become a better Hindu, a better Muslim, a better Catholic, a better whatever we are. ... What God is in your mind you must accept.

Mother Teresa

Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other, and have the courage to accept each other as we are. Do not be surprised or become preoccupied at each other's failures - rather, see and find in each other the good, for each one of us is created in the image of God.

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.

Robin Williams

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

Samantha Bee

It's very Canadian of me - or maybe it's more the Catholic schoolgirl in me - but I always really want to do a good job.

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.

Saint Patrick

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.

Ronald Knox

The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.

Susan Sarandon

To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.

Sting

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

Stephen Greenblatt

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

Mother Teresa

The #‎ poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.

Mother Teresa

Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.

Monica Bellucci

I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.

Peter Kreeft

Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.

Peter Kreeft

You cannot be in love with love.

Peter Kreeft

If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.

Paz Vega

My family is very traditional, Catholic.

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.

Shusaku Endo

I became a Catholic against my will.

Stanley Hauerwas

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

Tony Abbott

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

Tom T. Hall

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

Tim Kaine

In fact, that's a great thing about America and even about being Catholic, we have plenty of opinions.

Samantha Morton

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

Tom Araya

I was born and raised Catholic.