“Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.” BelieveGraceDivineCatholicMovedIntellectCommand Author:Thomas Aquinas
“I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.” JesusMoralTeachingCatholicFellowsMovedRaisedDogmaExclusivity Author:Tom Shadyac
“I was raised Catholic,I took from that was a sense of theater and drama, and also the idea that there were truths that couldn't actually be uttered directly but really had to be reached through ritual. You come out of those Masses so moved, and you're like, "Why did that happen?" And the truth of it is that it happened through an hour of highly enacted ritual.” IdeasHappensHoursHappenedDramaMassTheaterCatholicMovedRaisedRitual Author:George Saunders
“I was born in Belgium and moved to Amsterdam when I was 17. I am not a Calvinist Dutchman but a Catholic Belgian. I think that makes a big difference.” ThinkingBigsBornDifferencesCatholicMovedBelgiumAmsterdamBelgians Author:Eddy de Clercq
“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 think it is very clear that, though great difference remained, evangelicals moved closer to Catholics, mainline Protestants and evangelical Protestants moved closer together, and this convergence coincided with greater institutional strength for all the Christian churches than, for the most part, you see today.” ThinkingTodayChristianTogetherDifferencesChurchClearGreaterCatholicMovedProtestantsEvangelicalChristian ChurchConvergence Author:Ross Douthat
“Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms of generating moral critiques of American excesses, and so on, and also a communal role, in terms of building community as the country moved westward to the role my own Catholic Church played in assimilating generations of immigrants.” YearsCountryTermCommunityChurchMy OwnMoralChristianityRolesClearGenerationsBuildingBenefitsCatholicMovedImmigrantsExcessSecularCatholic ChurchCritiqueAmerican LifePropheticBuilding Community Author:Ross Douthat
“Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic Church, as it is right they should ... With you, where there is none of these things to attract or keep me... No one shall move me from the faith which binds my mind with ties so many and so strong to the Christian religion... For my part, I should not believe the gospel except as moved by the authority of the Catholic Church.” ShouldMindBelieveChristianMovingNamesStrongChurchNumbersAuthorityImportanceCatholicMovedBelieverTiesBelongingCatholicismCatholic Church Author:Saint Augustine
“At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I went to a run-of-the-mill Catholic primary school when we first moved to L.A. But then I went to a high school where there were lots of 'industry' children. Those weren't my best friends and I've never set out to make myself a part of that scene.” WayFirstsChildrenRunningKidsSchoolIndustrySceneHigh SchoolCatholicMovedPrimariesHanging OutMy Best FriendMillsPrimary School Author:Lily Collins
“When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.” EndsMotherBeliefCatholicMovedCommittedBuddhistCatholicismDisillusionedDisillusionRoman Catholic Author:Ralph Fiennes