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“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

“Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from his fellow-Protestants more bitter than anything he had ever experienced from Catholics.”

Seeing Catholic Fellows Graves Bitter Formulas Dogma Persecution Heartbroken Protestants Dismayed

Book:SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON

Source: SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON

“How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.”

Thinking Years Mean Seeing Catholic Catholicism Biased Partiality

Author:Margaret Fuller

“My father was very strict with me, and I kept seeing a disparity between their freedom and my lack of it, or how I had all the responsibilities and they had none. And the Catholic Church, all of the rules, and why did I have to wear a dress when they could wear pants? I would say to my dad: 'Will Jesus love me less if I wear pants? Am I going to hell?'”

Ifs Father Jesus Church Responsibility Hell Seeing Dad Catholic Dresses My Dad Pants Strict Catholic Church Jesus Love Disparity Jesus Loves Me

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“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.”

Art Age Young Strong Felt Seeing Catholic Saint Young Age Introduction Apostles Brutality

Author:Damien Hirst

“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.”

Belief Left Felt Born United Seeing Catholic Terror Believer Empires Priests Solidarity Totalitarianism Persecuted Belief In God Fraternity Czech Prague

Author:Milan Kundera

“I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.”

Eye Church Seeing Painting Catholic Guilt Saint

Author:Nan Goldin

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.”

Ifs Matter Church Enemy Seeing Findings Catholic Fundamentals Including Accepted Creeds Dogma Catholic Church Service To Others Really Living Finding God

Author:Martin Sheen

“Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror.”

World Persons Faces Challenges Church Seeing Mirrors Catholic Including Pope Catholic Church

Author:Regina Brett

“I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist. I also have a hard time believing that anything that created rain forests and oceans and an infinite universe would, in the same process, create something as unnatural as humanity in its own image. I believe in God, but not as a he or she or an it, but as something that defines my ability to conceptualize within the rather paltry frames of reference I have on hand.”

Source: A Drink Before The War

“However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.”

May Made Self Use Individual Seeing Achieve Ought Tools Catholic Satisfaction Indulge Indulge In Self-satisfaction

Author:St. Vincent

“We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing.”

Community Healing Seeing Calling Catholic Lawyer Grandfather Ministry Counseling Suing

Author:Roger Mahony

“Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and gratifying the wishes of all poor sufferers. O beloved sick, how doubly dear you are to me, when you personify Christ; and what a privilege is mine to be allowed to tend you.”

Giving Joy Wish Christ Poor Lord Seeing Mines Sick Give Me Catholic Dear Privilege Beloved Fancy Monotonous Sufferers

Book:Mother Teresa: Essential Writings

Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings