Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton Chekhov

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

Broderick Crawford

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

Allen Ginsberg

This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known.

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.

Steven Morrissey

Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.

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?

Jim Gaffigan

I was still rooting for Notre Dame.It's like there's the cultural Catholic experience.

Jim Gaffigan

The reason I say I'm a horrible person is I don't want myself to be presented as somebody who's a great Catholic.

Joseph Biden

No. 1, on the police training, we've wasted 17 months,

Frank Serpico

The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

Robert Peel

The police are the public and the public are the police

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

Joseph Wambaugh

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

Karl Kraus

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

Jo Nesbo

Good police officers are ugly.

Heinrich Himmler

In the brief monthly reports of the Security Police, I only want figures on how many Jews have been shipped off and how many are currently left.

Roy Baker

A student witnessed it, and it scared them and called the police.

Brennan Manning

The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.' 'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.

Dana Tofig

There is nothing that stops them, except the separation of church and state -- you can't be proselytizing.

Pat Robertson

...There is no such thing as ... separation of state and church ... in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left.

John Wesley

In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.

Jeanna Mastrodicasa

I thought I wouldn't like church as much as I did.

Jay-Z

You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.

James E. Faust

The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable.

Janet Evanovich

I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.

Christopher Dawson

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.