Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Merton

What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you should say"--he told me--"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.

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.

St. Jerome

Haste is of the Devil.

St. Jerome

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

St. Jerome

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

St. Jerome

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

St. Jerome

Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.

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.

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.

Stanley Hauerwas

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

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.

Steve Garvey

With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.

Steven Morrissey

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

Steven Morrissey

Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young.

Shane Claiborne

We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.

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?

Michael Moore

I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.

John Waters

My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior -- BEFORE the Reformation.

John Waters

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

Paul Bettany

I was born a Catholic and now I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm something but I'm not a believer any more.

Martin Sheen

It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

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.

Martin Luther

It is easier to live as a Protestant, but better to die as a Catholic.

N. T. Wright

I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God.

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.

Michael Scheuer

One of the reasons they didn't go to Bosnia, bin Laden has explained extensively, was because they couldn't establish a base anywhere. Not in Catholic Croatia. Not in Orthodox Serbia. So they sent some trainers and a lot of money.