Best Catholic Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.”

“I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.”

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Author:Frances O'Connor

“In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of religious expression, a basic human right, is not upheld in our midst as widely and as completely as it should be.”

Should Humans Shows Action Voice Church Religious Expression Catholic Raised Midst Intolerance Scotland Sectarianism

Author:Keith O'Brien

“I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.”

Children Two Religious Catholic

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

“I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus.”

Giving Heart School Courses Jesus Training Catholic Thanks Grammar Grammar School

Author:Tony Orlando

“Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.”

Thinking Able Wanted Please My Family Catholic University Priests Catholic Education

Author:Danny Pudi

“White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty! We are free at last!"”

Men Hands Able Lasts Spiritual Black Freedom White Catholic Ancient Jew Thank God Almighty White Man Protestants Holding Hands Gentiles

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.”

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Author:Dennis Lehane

“I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.”

Way Said Jesus Church Religious Catholic

Author:Pete Postlethwaite

“I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years, from eleven to fourteen, and trained to be a Catholic priest. So I was very steeped in all that.”

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Author:Pete Postlethwaite

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

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Author:Arthur Peacocke

“It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.”

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Author:Trevor Phillips

“To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.”

Different Country Law Community Principles Catholic Agency Why Not Adoption Our Community Methodists Sharia

Author:Trevor Phillips

“I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.”

Persons Spiritual Praying Catholic I Pray

Author:Kiki Smith

“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”

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Author:Anatole France

“Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!”

Father Christ Lord Blood Catholic Atheist Redeemed

Author:Pope Francis

“I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.”

Believe Light Father Jesus I Believe Christ Teacher Jesus Christ Catholic Creator I Believe In Believe In God Pastor Incarnation I Believe In God Abba

Author:Pope Francis

“I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.”

Believe Long Values I Believe Church Awareness Involved Tasks Catholic Mature Expertise

Author:Pope Francis

“A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!”

Prayer Offers Catholic Offering

Author: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.”

Has Beens I Can Spirit Progress Relation Catholic Jew Collaboration Council Sincerely

Author:Pope Francis

“In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those Churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.”

Happens Enjoy Nice Catholic Guilt Things Happen Nice Things Catholic Guilt

Author:Jack White

“I'm a good Catholic boy.”

Boys Catholic

Author:Zakk Wylde

“Tie me up, please... Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the depression in the canal they were standing in. She was in his hands-he had to comply. A little bit of kink was one of the most delicious of erotic pleasures. Catholic school girls were often the horniest-Brett could hardly contain his elation.”

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Book:Catholic School Girls Rule

Source: Catholic School Girls Rule

“Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.”

People Two Hard Helping School Growing Up Growing Seeing Fronts Dad Catholic My Dad Seats Help Me Toilets Catholic School

Author:Mia Love

“I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.”

I Can Mistake Catholic Raised Guilty

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.”

Years School College High School Catholic Grades Grades In School Catholic School

Author:William Mapother

“I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.”

Knows Heart Mother Given Christ Wonderful Example Catholic Genuine God Love Teresa

Author:Bill McCartney

“No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.”

Said Sin Practice Subjects Catholic Mortals Relief Homosexuality Damnation Forthcoming Catholic Faith Mortal Sin

Author:James McGreevey

“You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!”

Knows School Class Catholic Clown Catholic School

Author:Sofia Vergara

“One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.”

Men Book Might Reading Nice Catholic My Favorite Impression Very Nice Nice Man

Author:Sara Zarr

“I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.”

Doe Hurt Cost Catholic Charity Distrust Lenten

Author:Pope Francis

“You may be Catholic or Protestant or Buddhist or Baptist or Muslim or Mormon or Jewish or Jain, or you have no religion at all. I'm not interested in your religious background. Because God did not create the universe for us to have religion. He came for us to have a relationship with him.”

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Author:Rick Warren

“The mission of Tom Peterson and Catholics Come Home to bring souls home to Jesus and the church is critically important during this challenging time in our history. I fully support this New Evangelization project.”

Important Soul Home Jesus Challenges Church Support Projects Catholic Missions Coming Home Toms Challenging Times

Author:Rick Warren

“Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans.”

Two Twenties Catholic Martyr Twenty Two

Author:Pope Paul VI

“Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church.”

Found Jesus Church Holy Catholic Fidelity Apostolic

Author:Pope John XXIII

“Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare.”

President Organization Catholic Hopefully Obamacare Opposing Retribution Embassy

Author:Jeb Bush

“The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we avert the scourges of divine justice. By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with heavenly help. Should men grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would be a detriment to God’s glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted that such negligence would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of private woe.”

“A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.”

Want May Sin Catholic Deny Genuine Sinner Forgiven Lord Forgive Me

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.”

Catholic Remains Puritan

Author:William Henry O'Connell

“Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.”

People Problem Church Religious Greater Development Tradition Catholic Remarkable Openness Persuasion Desirable Catholic Church Religious Traditions

Author:Francis Arinze

“I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a film today'. I'm aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes.”

Want Today Film Morning Taste Directors Wake Up Catholic Contemporary Perceive Film Directors

Author:Stephen Daldry

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

Knows Catholic Jew Clergy Bad Movies Being Played

Author:Cheech Marin

“When you don't have kids and you're in a Catholic family - one of my sisters had 10 children in 11 years - she's part rabbit - you feel kind of guilty about that. So, I want to do things for other people's children.”

People Want Feels Years Kind Children Kids Catholic Guilty My Sister Rabbits Catholic Family

Author:Marge Schott

“A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.”

Persons Cat Catholic Vegetarian Vegetables Vegetarianism

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Do you wish to learn the secret of true Eucharistic prayer? Consider, then, all the mysteries in the light of the Blessed Sacrament. It is a divine prism through which they can all be studied. The Holy Eucharist is, indeed, 'Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today, and the same forever' (Heb 13:8). In this Sacrament He glorifies all the mysteries of His life and prolongs, as it were, the exercise of all His virtues. The Eucharist is, in a word, the great Mystery of our faith to which all Catholic truths lead”

“Hear Mass daily; it will prosper the whole day. All your duties will be performed the better for it, and your soul will be stronger to bear its daily cross. The Mass is the most holy act of religion; you can do nothing that can give greater glory to God or be more profitable for your soul than to hear Mass both frequently and devoutly. It is the favorite devotion of the saints.”

Giving Soul Whole Inspiration Faith Can Do Greater Duty Bears Holy Mass Glory Crosses Stronger Catholic Saint Devotion Your Soul Profitable Glory Of God

Author:Peter Julian Eymard

“When we stand in the light it is not we who illumine the light and cause it to shine but we are illuminated and made shining by the light... God grants his blessings on those who serve him because they are serving him and on those who follow him because they are following him, but he receives no blessing from them because he is perfect and without need”

Needs Made Light Causes Perfect Blessing Catholic Shining Following Serving Grants Light God

Author:Irenaeus of Lyons

“The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and Apostles and all their disciples.”

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Author:Irenaeus of Lyons

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