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I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.
— Joyce Johnson
We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Some think, excuse me if I use the word, that in order to be good Catholics, we have to be like rabbits - but no.
— Pope Francis
I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.
— Khloe Kardashian
Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!
— Saint John Chrysostom
But I make it in time for the Gospel, which in Catholic lore means that it still "counts".
— Kerry Weber
I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.
— Nic Pizzolatto
Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself.
— Saint Augustine
My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.
— Kate O'Brien
Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet.
— Irene Thomas
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[Francis of Assisi was one of the] signal figures who are catalysts for rapid change
— Jon M. Sweeney
While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
— Julianna Baggott
Turn over the rudder in God's name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us.
— Catherine Of Siena
I feel like a fox in a henhouse full of Catholic girls.
— Cate Tiernan
Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?
— Anton Chekhov
For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.
— Regina Doman
I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
— Marina Warner
I'll bet the Catholic Church lost out on a lot of would-be nuns when they started dressing like ordinary meter maids.
— Lucia Berlin
No matter what tight corner I was in, I was capable of getting myself out of it ... not God!
— Stephen Richards
When you see the storm coming, if you seek safety in that firm refuge which is Mary, there will be no danger of your wavering or going down.
— Josemaria Escriva
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The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.
— Chris Matthews
This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.
— Adolf Hitler
Holding onto failed dreams only makes you bitter.
— Joseph C. Sciarillo
Our teaching may contain nothing impious, nothing diluted.
— Gregory Of Nazianzus
I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.
— Edward Burns
All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.
— Mother Teresa
Between optimism and pessimism, there is confidence in God.
— Edmund Campion
He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.
— Ambrose
Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
— Pope John Paul II
Only do not rebel against the LORD! You need not be afraid
— United States Conference Of Catholic Bishops
Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.
— Ignatius Of Antioch
Make us love and obey you so that the works of our hands may always display what your hands have done, until we gaze upon the beauty of your face.
— The Catholic Church
God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
— Pope John Paul II
(The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.) There
— Stephen Hawking
They're convinced that the more conservative you are the more orthodox you are. They're more Catholic than the Pope.
— Michael D. O'Brien
The body, in fact, and it alone is capable of making visible that which is invisible; the spiritual and the divine.
— Pope John Paul II
Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.
— Josemaria Escriva
One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
— Alfred Hitchcock
I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt.
— George Stroumboulopoulos
You can't trust those damn Catholics.
— Gordon Gee
God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
— Saint Augustine
I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.
— Paulo Coelho
I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.
— Pete Postlethwaite
The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.
— Robert H. Schuller
Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
— Allen Ginsberg
One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.
— Bertrand Russell
I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
— Natasha Leggero
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.
— Henri Nouwen
Accept the risen Jesus into your life. Even if you have been far away, take a small step towards Him. He awaits you with open arms.
— Pope Francis
My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic.
— Regina Doman
I have a lot of mental scars from being brought up Catholic and being sent to Catholic school for 13 years!
— Mat McNerney
I go to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank.
— Patrick Carman
I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.
— Paulo Coelho
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
— Charles Spurgeon
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
— Edna O'Brien
Catholic, I discovered, meant a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin, and guilt.
— Matt Haig
The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide.
— Todd Akin
Aaron looks like a con man who got hit with a shrink ray and you look like you're going to Catholic school.
— Holly Black
Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church.
— Pope John XXIII
Happy is the soul that knows how to find Jesus in the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in all things!
— Peter Julian Eymard
There was no known cure for a Catholic education.
— Lisa Scottoline
I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.
— Neve Campbell
I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide. One
— Tom Spanbauer
It is impossible to make peace with the Roman Catholic Church. It is one of the permanent enemies of all that is decent in human spirit.
— Harold J. Laski
