Catholic Church Quotes - Page 2

• I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Moving, Catholic

  "An Augustine Reader".

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• It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

  Martin Sheen

  Catholic, Enemy, Church

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• Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.

  Francis Arinze

  Religious, People, Catholic

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• 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

  Jesus, Catholic, Church

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• I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.

  Anne Lamott

  Sweet, Glasses, Smell

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.10, Anchor

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• We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Catholic, Evolution, Results

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• They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.

  Hutton Gibson

  World Government, World Religions, Catholic

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• Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Catholic, Church, Kitsch

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• The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

  Shirley Williams

  Women, Catholic, Church

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• Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

  Bill Condon

  Catholic, Church, Way

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• There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Hate, People, Catholic

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• BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.

  William P. Leahy

  Community, Catholic, Church

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• We are not only interested in those aspects of the mystery of the Roman Catholic Church which set her apart from the other Christian communities, but also to show how often they are central beliefs by describing what is specifically Catholic in such a way that the partner in dialogue can see, even from his own standpoint, the inner consistency.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Christian, Community, Catholic

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• Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own.

  Susan Jacoby

  Catholic, Church, West

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• It didn't matter if it was the Catholic Church or Episcopal Church or Presbyterian Church and it still doesn't today. I just like the tradition of having a place to go and connect to a higher power and feel gratitude, and I think that's helpful however you find it.

  Lisa Rinna

  Gratitude, Thinking, Catholic

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• For many years, despite what I thought were really punitive decisions about women in the church, I stayed and stayed and stayed. I kept saying to myself, "The Catholic church is my church, and by God, I'm going to stay here, despite what the hierarchy does."

  Anna Quindlen

  Years, Decision, Catholic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful, New York, Catholic

  Andy Warhol, Mark Francis, Mattjis Visser, Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2004). “Andy Warhol: the late work”, Prestel Publishing

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• I am Catholic, I was raised Catholic, I am a practicing Catholic. But I say we need to agree to disagree. We have a shared mission around poverty, and I focus on that, because we do a lot with the Catholic Church around poverty alleviation. I'm always looking for: what is the common thread? What do we care about? What do we believe in? We believe in women around the world. We believe in all lives have equal value.

  Melinda Gates

  Believe, Common Threads, Focus

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none of us seemed more religious than anyone else, no one ever questioned the rituals or the basic tenets of belief.

  Colm Toibin

  Religious, Parent, Catholic

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• When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Catholic, Church, Remember

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• When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me to the Catholic church is that in Catholicism, prayer suffuses all of one's life by virtue of the sacraments. Prayer is not something which occurs just on Sunday, it doesn't occur only at particular moments of intensity or by particular conventions, one's whole life is given up to prayer in many, many modes. And so everything to do with the faith is trying to put you in relationship with God and trying to make that relationship grow deeper and more mature.

  Kevin Hart

  Prayer, Sunday, Thinking

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

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• I am very grateful for the Catholic Church and its unwavering stance on life. They have been a consistent, uncompromising voice defending life.

  Steve Daines

  Grateful, Voice, Catholic

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

  Ross Douthat

  Catholic, Intellectual, Church

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I am Catholic but I want to say something to the Catholics. Thank you for some of the bishops who live in rural areas, and are still Catholic. These bishops of the Catholic churches still pray for the poor, and pray for their president who works for the poor, while the leaders of the Catholic Church only defend oligarchy.

  Evo Morales

  Leader, Catholic, Church

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• I think religion has often played a very positive role. Take western civilization, the Catholic Church has played an honorable role in helping those in need. In contrast, the US carried out a virtual war against the church in central America in the 1980's primarily because prime elements in the church were working with great courage and honor to help those in need. And to organize them to help themselves.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, Civilization

  Source: chomsky.info

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