Quotes about catholic
catholics encouraged government liberties roman
The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people.
catholic empires prague
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. Milan Kundera
catholic priests grew
I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest. Kurt Braunohler
catholic-religion government anti-religion
Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion? John Adams
catholic midwest enjoy
I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I cant enjoy anything. Kyle Kinane
catholic irishmen presbyterians
As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman. John Bright
catholic fate girls late later might sooner start
You Catholic girls start much too late But sooner or later it comes down to fate I might as well be the one. Billy Joel
catholic buttons gave-up
I'm not Catholic, but I gave up picking my belly button for lint. Emo Philips
catholic god idolatry imagination present preserve problem sees wants
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. Andrew Greeley
catholic culture election
Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake. Norman Vincent Peale
catholic
And Bobby [Jindal] and I are both Catholics. Joe Biden
catholic atheism worship
A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god.
catholic sectarianism protestants
I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants. James Larkin
catholic church records
Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews John Hagee
catholic position oppressed
The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
catholic firsts steps
Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis. Garrison Keillor
catholic kingdoms reservations
To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within. Francois Fenelon
catholic ordinary
I am just an ordinary Catholic. Maggie Gallagher
catholic church ifs
If Vulcans had a church, they’d be Catholics. John C. Wright
catholic god held holy roman shall subject taken
If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
catholic language speak
The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken. Helen Oyeyemi
catholic thank-god down-and
I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative! Hilaire Belloc
catholic church divinity
The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.
catholic church remember
When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.
catholic reason explaining
The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true. Gilbert K. Chesterton
catholic vindictive horrible
I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. John Lydon
catholic children grade laughing mom remember school time
I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, 'Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.' I thought, 'Who cares? As long as they're laughing.' Chris Farley
catholic minority
I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA. Clarence Thomas
catholic century control disagree good keys people strongly though women
I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl, I shouldn't. But I disagree because I think one of the keys to women's progression in the 20th century is being able to control their fertility. Cherie Blair
catholic problem british
The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success. Danny Boyle
catholic italy stop
You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.
catholic faith home raised roman
I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there. Frederica Mathewes-Green
catholic church finally identify resolve strength works
I think the strength of the Catholic church is that when it does finally identify a problem, it works to resolve it. Donald Wuerl