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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

If I invite God into my life, I am and always will be good enough. — Kate Wicker

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality. — Jodi Picoult

Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil! — Saint John Chrysostom

He gave our pain and struggles a holy significance, a redemptive power, which makes it a privilege for us to suffer with Christ. — Scott Hahn

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point. — Abel Ferrara

Their son went to the idol-worshiping, uniform-wearing Catholic school, — Jeanne Ray

But I make it in time for the Gospel, which in Catholic lore means that it still "counts". — Kerry Weber

Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs. — Ian Paisley

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

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty. — John Waters

The 'Church' is ... catholic because her communion embraces the whole human race. — Pope Francis

Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet. — Irene Thomas

[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

Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves. — LeBron James

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

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything. — Mark Twain

It is easier to live as a Protestant, but better to die as a Catholic. — Martin Luther

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

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

You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews. — Cheech Marin

You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road. — John Deacon

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

I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. — Peter O'Toole

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

I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture. — Anne Rice

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

I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament ... — J.R.R. Tolkien

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 was raised Catholic ... I fell in love with certain ideals. — Jon Voight

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God. — Paulo Coelho

We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them. — Saint Basil

It's troubling for me as a Catholic to be at odds with the church. — Andrew Cuomo

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

You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you. — Farah Diba

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

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up. — Mandy Moore

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

George W. Bush is the first Catholic president of the United States. — Rick Santorum

I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it. — John Densmore

I first came to Jewish-Catholic relations in 1963, while studying for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. — David Novak

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 may be a good Catholic, a bad Catholic or a so-so Catholic, but that's who I am. — Teresa Heinz

I go to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank. — Patrick Carman

That's not to say that I'm a well-informed Catholic. I'm still in idiot. — Jim Gaffigan

It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway. — PZ Myers

I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues. — Grimes

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book. — John Bosco

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

I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy, — Jim Carroll

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 Catholic In My Complications And Buddhist In My Aspirations'

~George O'dowd — Boy George

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

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly. — Bradley Cooper

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

You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists. — Mike Birbiglia

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

I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college. — William Mapother

The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods. — Thomas Aquinas