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“I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage)”

Ifs Needs Years Enough Fighting Next Speak Praying Catholic Atheist Orthodox Broads Permit Platforms Fairness Suffrage Beads Women's Suffrage

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“Voters are more than Catholics, Protestants or Jews. They make up their minds for many diverse reasons, good and bad. To submit the candidates to a religious test is unfair enough - to apply it to the voters is divisive, degrading and wholly unwarranted.”

Mind Reason Enough Religious Atheism Tests Catholic Jew Positive Atheism Candidates Voters Submit Diverse Unfair Good And Bad Protestants Degrading

Author:John F. Kennedy

“My favorite story about O'Connor - one of them - is I was in Toronto at a pro-life conference.I had a session before he was to come on,I thought very moderately - that not have unwanted abortions was to have much more research on contraception. Two true-faith people came out of the audience, wrested the microphone out of my hand and said, `That is im - inappropriate, improper. Pro-lifers do not believe in contraception.' [John] O'Connor's watching this said,`I want to tell you I'm delighted that Nat is not a member of the Catholic Church. We have enough trouble as it is.'”

“In many ways, American evangelicalism is somewhat stronger today than it was in, say 1955 - certainly more mainstream and influential in the culture as a whole. But, the increased strength of evangelicalism hasn't increased fast enough to compensate for the total collapse of mainline Protestantism and the pretty steady weakening of my own Roman Catholic Church.”

Way Enough Whole Today Culture Church My Own Stronger Catholic Steady Mainstream Collapse Influential Catholic Church Weakening Protestantism Roman Catholic Roman Catholic Church

Author:Ross Douthat

“Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”

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“It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.”

Men Enough Morality Catholic Curse Good Man Scoundrels

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.”

Enough Catholic Raised

Author:John Cusack

“To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautiful for him.”

Needs Giving Enough Beautiful Knowing Pure Catholic Purity Knowing God Loving Him Chastity Purity

Author:Mother Teresa

“So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.”

Knows Men Wells May Long Enough Humility Proud Catholic Repeats Reasonable Rooted Superstitions Creeds Dogma Be Proud Long Life Journalistic

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.”

World Enough Silence Cry Thousand Hundred Catholic Silent Tongue Rotten Had Enough

Author:St. Catherine of Siena

“Catholics are frequently criticised because of the prominence and respect given to the Virgin Mary while simultaneously condemned for not giving enough prominence and respect to women.”

Giving Enough Given Catholic Mary Virgins Virgin Mary Prominence

Author:Michael Coren