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Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life. — Joan Van Ark

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being. — Anthony M. Esolen

In accordance with the centuries-old tradition of the Latin rite, the Latin language is to be retained by clerics in the divine office. — Pope Paul VI

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary. — Margaret Atwood

No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother. — Cyprian

Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Theresa Bianchi decorated in bulk with a heavy dose of Catholicism — Kristen Ashley

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society. — Fulton J. Sheen

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else. — Peter Kreeft

The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism. — Peter Singer

Salvation history reveals sin as literally a broken home. — Scott Hahn

The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S. — Park Chan-wook

Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke! — Robert Browning

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured. — Oscar Romero

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying. — Karl Rahner

We can never attain a maximum love of God with only a minimum knowledge of God — Frank Sheed

He loved us personally ... centuries before we were born. — Peter Julian Eymard

Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on. — Pope Benedict XVI

There is nothing to unify God and the soul but the Cross. — Louis De Wohl

Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock. — Marcus Brigstocke

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism. — Julianna Baggott

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance. — William Levada

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that? — Bonaventure

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. — Lenny Bruce

Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul. — Peter Kreeft

The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

He was alone in his wonderment,
amoung creatures incapable of wonder
for them it was enough to exist and go their way. — Pope John Paul II

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar. — G.K. Chesterton

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile. — G.K. Chesterton

Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet! — Giovannino Guareschi

BECAUSE CATHOLICISM IS TRUE, The papacy was established by Christ, has endured, and retains the authority entrusted to it by Christ, even to this day. — Tim Staples

Let there be no innovation; keep to what has been handed down. — Pope Stephen I

Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains. — George Bernard Shaw

Between optimism and pessimism, there is confidence in God. — Edmund Campion

Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

There's nothing sexier than a lapsed Catholic. — Woody Allen

Peace is built on the foundation of justice. — Pope Leo XIII

I am always able to speak with him (Christ) inwardly. But I am nevertheless just a lowly little man who does not always reach all the way up to him. — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Catholicism is an obsessive-compulsive faith. — Ann Patchett

We can only sense ourselves and our world valued and cherished by God when we feel valued and cherished by others '. — Brennan Manning

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. — Fulton J. Sheen

Catholics get on well with tyranny. It's in the culture. — Richard K. Morgan

Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men. — Alice Von Hildebrand

Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection. — Eugene Kennedy

There is only one misery . . . not to be saints. — Leon Bloy

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God. — Peter Kreeft

"Entertainers Of Faith," funnyman Jim Gaffigan isn't ashamed of his Catholicism. He's seen here leaving a New York comedy club with his Bible in hand. — Jim Gaffigan

She says she turned away from Catholicism as a teenager — Anonymous

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment. — Edna O'Brien

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with. — Peter Kreeft

I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that. — Dean Koontz

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. — Pope Benedict XVI

I was raised Catholic. Guilt is my resting state. — Paul Doiron

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia. — Peter Kreeft

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world. — Charles Dickens

even the presidents of Harvard and Yale saw the War of Independence as part of God's design for the overthrow of Catholicism. — Karen Armstrong

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself. — Pope John Paul II

We have to go on until Islam is made as ho-hum as Catholicism. — Charb

For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach. — Greg Rucka

We are all born like Catholics ... in limbo, without religion. — Yann Martel

Ah, he thought, for one who cannot read--or think--the Image, the physical form of Love! — Willa Cather

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love. — Peter Kreeft

It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism. — Chino Moreno

I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldn't reconcile. — Rich Mullins

To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant. — John Henry Newman

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small. — Mother Teresa

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

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. — Thomas Keneally

Justice comes before charity. — Pope John XXIII

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed. — Fulton J. Sheen

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me. — Paul Farmer

Always a shy one, he swallowed his pill of Catholicism seriously. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church. — Martin Sheen

Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Without the family, we are helpless before the State. — G.K. Chesterton

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE — Ernesto Cardenal

We can talk about human dignity, but where is it? — Michael Novak

The Catholic Church made a serious mistake when they started caring about how many people are in the pews. — Michel Templet

I can't bear Catholicism. — George Michael

He clenched his small fist, bellowed his rage to the heavens, and resolved to never again recognize the authority of any man on earth. — Patricia Lockwood

In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Catholicism has changed tremendously in recent years. Now when Communion is served there is also a salad bar. — Bill Maher

Catholicism has you tracked and trailed for life — Morrissey

My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism. — Tom Hollander

Narcissism makes people incapable of looking beyond themselves, beyond their own desires and needs. — Pope Francis

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual. — Pat Buchanan

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. — Fulton J. Sheen

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right. — G.K. Chesterton

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons. — Peter Kreeft

Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law. — Fulton J. Sheen