Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Alda

I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.

Alan Alda

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

Arthur Peacocke

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

Antony Gormley

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

Denis McDonough

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

Denis Leary

I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.

Bill Maher

I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

Bernard of Clairvaux

We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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Madeleine Albright

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

Nic Pizzolatto

I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a novel that was the novel I wanted to write, and got a couple of good reviews but no real traction. I had no idea how to get a job in TV.

Simon Hoggart

What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?

We're right where we want to be in the Catholic League race. We have a big date coming up with St. Rita at the end of the year and we need to keep winning until then.

Bob Gunton

And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

Cheech Marin

You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.

We felt like this was a must-win game for us. We felt that if we were going to have any shot at getting to the Catholic League playoffs, we had to win tonight. It was a big game in the league.

Richard Garnett

Through most of our history a lot of Americans would have been freaked out by the idea of more than one, ... For a long time there was the one Catholic seat and one Jewish seat.

John Hume

They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council.

Andrew Greeley

Thirty years ago, before the Vatican Council, Catholics didn't know what liturgy was.

It's the salvation a tournament gives you that you're looking to find. You have a chance for redemption. We have so many Catholic schools in the league, I guess we can say it's absolution. We can have all our sins absolved with a good weekend.

Julie Brown

There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.

It was a wing and a prayer. We're a Catholic school, so it had to be answered.

It's a way of helping people to learn more about the great patrimony of Catholic music that's been largely neglected by the church since the Second Vatican Council.

Eugene Kennedy

The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the imperfect state known as the human condition. First and foremost, if we could ever be perfect or do things perfectly, we would eliminate mystery, an essential ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life.

We're not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn't mean that every church that doesn't join them isn't a church.

Any school that closes, we will guarantee there will be a seat in a nearby Catholic school.

St. Patrick is the patron saint of the Archdiocese of New York. As such, we celebrate March 17 as a feast day and all Catholics in the archdiocese get a dispensation from the Lenten requirements for that day.

team with the white evangelical church and the Catholic church to deal with moral issues.

Terry Wogan

I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a sin as long as you don't take pleasure from it.

This is an extreme Catholic position that is not justifiable in the context of even the Catholic health ethical guidelines on the treatment of women who've been raped.

Camille Guaty

I went to a Catholic school, so of course we had to wear uniforms. My only form of expression was in shoes and the style of my hair.