Catholicism Quotes - Page 12

• The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal.

  William Levada

  Children, Elderly, Plight

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• In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and well-planned.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Attitude

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Women, Heart

  Pope Benedict XVI, Peter Seewald (2002). “God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald”, p.199, Ignatius Press

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• We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn our backs on them, so for us, health care reform is a faith-based response to human need.

  Simone Campbell

  People, Suffering, Reform

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• If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, Differences, Catholic

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.103, Macmillan

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• What you find I think in the mystical strain of Catholicism is that you're put in relationship with God, and you have many opportunities not only of talking with God in petitionary prayer, but also of listening to God, being attentive to God, as happens in contemplation.

  Kevin Hart

  Prayer, Opportunity, Thinking

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". Interview with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.

  Conor McPherson

  Thinking, Roots, Spirit

  "Interview: Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of ‘The Eclipse’". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.com. March 25, 2010.

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• My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

  Marilyn Manson

  Mother, Memories, Father

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• Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

  Camille Paglia

  Spiritual, Atheist, Believe

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• I can't bear Catholicism.

  George Michael

  Bears, I Can

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• Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• Christ did not found an abstract religion, a mere school of religious thought. He setup a community of apostles, of teachers, with the task of spreading His message and so giving rise to a society of believers: His Church. He promised the Spirit of truth to His Church and then sent Him.

  Pope Paul VI

  Teacher, Religious, School

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• I wouldn't have known anything about Catholicism if I hadn't been dating Gert. In those days, Catholics were much less ecumenical than they are today. Gert was always of the mind that she wouldn't go to another church except the Catholic Church. So when I would date her in New York City and later when we went to Oxford before we got married we always went to the Catholic church.

  Wesley Clark

  New York, Cities, Oxford

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.

  Saint Augustine

  Father, Watches, Steps

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• Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to the designs of the all-wise Creator.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wise, Design, Catholic

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. The various substitutes have not proved so successful from the standpoint of results that they could be regarded as a useful replacement for previous religious creeds. But if religious doctrine and faith are really to embrace the broad masses, the unconditional authority of the content of this faith is the foundation of all efficacy.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Attitude, Successful

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• What we have to fight for...is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Fighting, People

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.221, eKitap Projesi

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• It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Men, Mind, Body

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.159, TAN Books

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• If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

  Brian Eno

  Strong, Growing Up, Ideas

  "On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno". Interview with Paul Morley, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2010.

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• Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation.

  Pope John XXIII

  Justice, Sincere, Individual

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• And the founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of his estimation of the Jewish people. When He found it necessary, He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Race, People

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.302, eKitap Projesi

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• Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up his sleeve.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Fighting, Laughing

  Adolf Hitler (2000). “Mein Kampf”, p.506, Om Books International

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• I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me, as the village priest had once seemed to my father, the highest and most desirable ideal.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Father, Opportunity

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was not in agreement with the sharp anti-Semitic tone, but from time to time I read arguments which gave me some food for thought. At all events, these occasions slowly made me acquainted with the man and the movement, which in those days guided Vienna's destinies: Dr. Karl Lueger and the Christian Social Party.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Party

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to love them. I shall do everything for Heaven, my true home. There I shall find my Mother in all the splendor of her glory. I shall delight with her in the joy of Jesus himself in perfect safety.

  Bernadette Soubirous

  Mother, Jesus, Home

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