“I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics, and very probably at some time, Jews. I have consistently tried while President to act in relation to my fellow Americans of Catholic faith as I hope that any future President who happens to be Catholic will act towards his fellow Americans of Protestant faith. Had I followed any other course I should have felt that I was unfit to represent the American people.” PeopleIfsShouldBelieveHappensCoursesI BelieveFeltPresidentAtheismCenturyShould HaveRelationCatholicFellowsEndureJewPositive AtheismRepublicConsistentlyProtestantsCatholic Faith Book:Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: The big stick, 1905-1909 Source: Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: The big stick, 1905-1909
“All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate, wherever possible, in the administration of civil affairs; must constantly exert the utmost vigilance and energy to prevent the usages of liberty from going beyond the limits fixed by God's law. All Catholics should do all in their power to cause the constitutions of states and legislation to be modeled on the principles of the true Church.” ShouldCountryStatesLawPoliticalEnergyFeltCausesChurchLibertyPrinciplesLimitsElementsConstitutionCatholicAffairScaryActiveAdministrationFixedLegislationPenetrateVigilanceUsagePolitical Life Author:Pope Leo XIII
“I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.” ArtAgeYoungStrongFeltSeeingCatholicSaintYoung AgeIntroductionApostlesBrutality Author:Damien Hirst
“I have a great respect for the flag, (but) if the government passed a law saying that I had to pledge allegiance to the flag, I don't think I would do it. I've always felt that I lived in a country...where if I wanted to worship God as a Baptist, I could do so. If I were an atheist, I could be one. If I wanted to be a Catholic but was born a Jew, there's no condemnation...from a government authority.” IfsThinkingCountryGovernmentWantedLawFeltBornAuthorityWorshipCatholicAtheistJewFlagsPledgeAllegianceBaptistsCondemnationWorship GodGreat Respect Author:Jimmy Carter
“I've always felt at home in the Church. Catholics are often more laid back than they are given credit for - presumably because at the back of their minds they realize that, if necessary, they can always confess everything to their local priest.” IfsMindHomeGivenFeltRealizingChurchCatholicCreditLocalsPriestsLaid Back Author:Jens Spahn
“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.” BeliefLeftFeltBornUnitedSeeingCatholicTerrorBelieverEmpiresPriestsSolidarityTotalitarianismPersecutedBelief In GodFraternityCzechPrague Author:Milan Kundera
“For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child might, of an awesome hierarchy that was real and felt, baseball was a kind of secular church that reached into every class and region of the nation and bound millions upon millions of us together in common concerns, loyalties, rituals, enthusiasms, and antagonisms. Baseball made me understand what patriotism was about, at its best.” KindChildrenMadeRealMightTogetherAmericaStrongNationsFeltChurchCommonClassMillionsConcernRootsBaseballCatholicBoundsLoyaltyEnthusiasmRegionsRitualInchesSecularHierarchyAntagonism Author:Philip Roth
“Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely green, tropical landscape: the ocean nearby, the giant banyan trees. It all felt part of one seamless mystery to me.” FeltImaginationChurchGrowing UpGrowingMysteryTreeOceanCatholicGreenLandscapeGiantsMy ImaginationCatholic ChurchEmbeddedTropicalSeamless Author:Karen Russell
“Twenty-four years ago I went through a profound conversion of heart and God led me to the Catholic Church. A few years later I felt Him calling me to start a Bible study program.” YearsHeartFeltChurchStudyFourCallingYears AgoProgramTwentiesCatholicProfoundConversionFour YearsCatholic ChurchBible Study Author:Gail Buckley
“I was inclined to judge the validity of a man's faith more by the depth of his roots in reality and brotherhood and love. So I felt more at home, shall we say with some Zoroastrians in the Far East, than I did with some Catholic missionaries.” MenHomeRealityFeltJudgingRootsAnd LoveCatholicDepthEastBrotherhoodValidity Author:Pierre Trudeau
“When I came to write my Thomas Cromwell books, I moved onto the center ground of English history, but I was never there before. I didn't feel it was my history particularly, coming from Northern Britain, being of Irish extraction, being a cradle Catholic. The image of England I grew up with felt somewhere else. There was an official England in postcards, but it wasn't one I had visited. But I decided to march onto the center ground and occupy it whether it was mine or not.” FeelsWritingBookFeltMinesGrewGrew UpDecidedEnglandCatholicMovedOfficialsBritainMarchSomewhere ElseCradlePostcardsEnglish HistoryExtractionCromwell Author:Hilary Mantel
“I went to Catholic school my entire life. Elementary school was probably my worst time - those are the years when you're figurin' out who you are, and then you've got the added pressure of being on the light-skinned side of things. I've been around - excuse me saying - predominantly white people in Catholic school, who sit around and just talk about black people because they thought they were in the presence of themselves, and they used to talk cool. I felt firsthand the racial prejudice that is still alive today.” PeopleYearsStillsLightTodaySchoolUsedFeltSidesBlackWhiteAliveWorstPrejudicePressureCatholicWho You AreExcuseBlack PeopleLive For TodayExcuse MeElementary SchoolRacial PrejudiceCatholic SchoolWorst Times Author:Kevin michael
“Quite apart from the Church's financial self-interest in getting me out of the way, Baltimore is an overwhelmingly Catholic city and like most good Christians, they felt we ought to be punished for our unorthodox views.” WaySelfChristianFeltInterestChurchViewsCitiesOughtCatholicFinancialSelf InterestBaltimoreGood ChristianUnorthodox Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“I grew up as a Roman Catholic, and as a very young boy I felt the presence of divinity in my life through the experiences that I had in connection with the Catholic church.” YoungFeltChurchBoysGrewGrew UpConnectionsCatholicDivinityCatholic ChurchRoman Catholic Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.” YoungFeltChurchWifeMarriedCatholicMy WifeTrappedDivorced Author:Don Adams
“I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not set its face against a social order which made so much charity in the present sense of the word necessary. I felt that charity was a word to choke over. Who wanted charity? And it was not just human pride but a strong sense of man's dignity and worth, and what was due to him in justice, that made me resent, rather than feel pround of so mighty a sum total of Catholic institutions.” MenFeelsHumansMadeWantedFacesOrderStrongSocialFeltChurchJusticePoorPrideDignityCatholicInstitutionsCharityDuesChokeResentSocial Order Author:Dorothy Day
“I never lost my faith...But like all modern Catholics, I felt for a time that I had outgrown the church. Now it is a bone of contention in my soul that I did not share my faith with my kids, as my parents did with me. It was a source of grace when I needed it. I have been greatly nurtured and inspired by my faith.” InspirationalHas BeensSoulKidsLostFeltParentChurchGraceShareModernSourceNeededCatholicInspiredBonesMy SoulContention Author:Martin Sheen
“But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.” FeelsBelieveMomentsRememberFatherFeltHappenedDiedCatholicCommittedObviousExplanationProtectedFather DiedMy Father Died Author:Javier Bardem
“I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsPlayFeltGrowing UpGrowingRocksCatholicGuiltThrownPunkSectionsHornsPunk RockHipsterEgotisticalCatholic Guilt Author:Jack White
“As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.” UseTodayChristianFeltChurchCatholicSymbolsFormerChristian Living Author:Andres Serrano
“I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.” AgeSpiritFoundFeltBornChurchResultsReflectionCatholicFedsCatholicismEvangelicalBorn Again Author:Bill McCartney