Catholicism Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Faith, Thinking, Catholic

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• Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.

  Pope Pius X

  Holy Eucharist, Christian Inspirational, Heaven

  "Quotable Saints". Book by Ronda Chervin, p. 79, 2003.

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• Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Spiritual, Worry, Catholic

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• Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.

  Cass Sunstein

  Law, Diversity, Political

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• She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Atheism, Church, Deals

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• I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Catholic Religion, Atheism

  "Adolf Hitler". Book by John Toland, p. 507. Adolf Hitler in 1941 to General Gerhard Engel, 1992.

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• Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

  John Guare

  Business, Catholic, Promise

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• I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

  Paul Farmer

  Impact, Catholic, Social

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• When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Mother, Buddhist, Catholic

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• Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Believe, Catholic

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• The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.

  John Vianney

  Thinking, Hatred, Forgiving

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• We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

  Teresa of Avila

  Religious, Catholic, Suffering

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.345, A&C Black

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• 'Eat my flesh,' Jesus says, 'and drink my blood.' The Lord supplies us with these intimate nutrients, he delivers over his flesh and pours out his blood, and nothing is lacking for the growth of his children

  Clement of Alexandria

  Jesus, Children, Blood

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• In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind.

  Samuel Adams

  Mind, Atheism, Age

  John White, Cecil Calvert Baltimore (2d Baron), Charles Hudson, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Massachusetts Historical Society (1904). “The planting of colonies in New England”

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• Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

  Paul Farmer

  Catholic, Doe, Appeals

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• I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.

  Bill McCartney

  Reflection, Catholic, Age

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• Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

  Peter Kreeft

  Nice, Hero, Heart

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• Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I adore. I love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Men, Doors, Sick

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• I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.

  Robert Vaughn

  Religious, Differences, Catholic

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• When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

  Harri Holkeri

  Catholic, Church, Problem

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

  Thomas Keneally

  Australia, Catholic, Landscape

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• The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed - only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be - then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!

  Lenny Bruce

  Religion, Stones, Superstitions

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

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spiritual, May, Form

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.915, e-artnow

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• Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Rags, Hot, Christianity

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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