“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.” YearsStrongBornFourCatholicPriestsFour YearsVery StrongElevenFourteenSeminary Author:Pete Postlethwaite
“Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family.” MadeBeliefStrongMomCatholicBackgroundsCzech Author:Gene Cernan
“If the Christian religion, as I understand it, or as you understand it, should maintain its ground, as I believe it will, yet Platonic, Pythagoric, Hindoo, and cabalistical Christianity, which is Catholic Christianity, and which has prevailed for 1500 years, has received a mortal wound, of which the monster must finally die. Yet so strong is his constitution, that he may endure for centuries before he expires.” IfsShouldYearsBelieveMayChristianDiesBeliefStrongI BelieveChristianityCenturyConstitutionCatholicEndureWoundsMonstersMortalsPlatonic Author:John Adams
“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'm spiritual. I'm religious. I'm a strong Christian and I'm a Catholic but I go to a Presbyterian Church. Occasionally I go to the Catholic church too. I take communion. I haven't transferred my membership or anything.” ChristianSpiritualStrongChurchReligiousHavensCatholicCommunionCatholic ChurchMembershipPresbyterians Author:Wesley Clark
“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
“I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a really powerful religion and a really strong set of beliefs. They permeate my work in many ways.” ThinkingWayStillsBeliefStrongPowerfulBasesCatholicGuiltReally PowerfulCatholic Guilt Author:Guillermo del Toro
“I was nurtured in the church; I went to a Catholic school; I was an altar boy; I went to a Catholic university; I was steeped in the moral tradition of the Catholic Church. My Catholicism plays a very strong role. But I thought President John F.Kennedy answered rather well when he said that ultimately my conduct as a public official does not come ex cathedra from Rome; it comes from my conscience.” SchoolStrongPresidentChurchMoralBoysConscienceTraditionCatholicCatholicismVery StrongCatholic School Author:Bruce Babbitt
“I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures, because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong. If I was born in Japan, I would speak about Buddhism, but I was born in South America.” SpeakStrongChurchReligiousBuddhismCatholicLatinVery StrongLatin America Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“In the south of India, they educated girls. Three things came together in southern India that are unbelievably coincidental. There, the local Maharajas believed in education for everybody. The Syrian Catholic Church built schools for boys and girls. And then the Communist party, which took over politics for a period of time, had very strong social policies that benefited women. As a result, girls got into school. It was the first part of the country where towns could claim to be 100 percent literate. And so there, you're going to have a sex ratio at birth that's normal.” CountrySchoolTogetherGirlStrongChurchPartyBoysPolicyBirthCatholicEducatedCommunistSouthernVery StrongBoy And Girl Author:Barbara Crossette
“I have to try to remind people on both sides of the barque of Peter that there is room for us all and that we are not the first generation of Catholics to experience serious theological and pastoral differences of opinion. In fact, from the New Testament, strong leaders within the church disagreed openly. Eventually, the truly great ones found ways to heal conflicts and keep the Lord's flock united.” PeopleTryingStrongChurchLeaderOpinionSeriousConflictCatholicHealNew TestamentTheological Author:Wilton Daniel Gregory
“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
“Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.” StrongIdentityCatholicExtremesFacultyAppetiteSymptomsVitalityIdlenessPersonal Identity Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
“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
“My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.” MomentsStrongChurchLeaderPossibilityCatholicGuaranteesProphecyRealisedOutlinesGuarantees ThatStrong Leaders Author:Richard John Neuhaus
“While it is true that the taking of life not yet born or in it's final stages is sometimes marked by a mistaken sense of altruism and human compassion it cannot be denied that such a culture of death, taken as a whole, betrays a completely individualistic concept of freedom, which ends up by becoming the freedom of "the strong" against the weak who have no choice but to submit.” HumansEndsSometimesWholeChoicesCultureStrongBornCompassionTakenStageBecomingConceptsWeakCatholicFinalsDeniedBetraySubmitAltruismMistakenIndividualisticHuman Compassion Author:Pope John Paul II
“You must be strong, dear brothers and sisters. You must be strong with the strength that comes from faith.” StrongBrotherCatholicDearBrothers And SistersDear Brother Book:Pilgrim to Poland Source: Pilgrim to Poland