Catholic Quotes - Page 20

• Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  Teaching, Perspective, Church

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• Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

  Simon Callow

  Jesus, Personality, Impression

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• For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Jesus, Nice, Blood

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• Catholic girls with tiny little mustaches.

  Frank Zappa

  Girl, Religious, Mustache

  Song: Catholic Girls

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• Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

  Mike Ferguson

  Spiritual, Powerful, Leader

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• I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there is a comfort in knowing what you're going to wear, and that probably comes from Catholic school, where I wore a uniform for 10 years.

  Prabal Gurung

  School, Thinking, Knowing

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• I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.

  Josh Gad

  Spiritual, Religious, Wife

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• I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.

  Katherine Helmond

  School, Catholic School, Asks

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• I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

  Patsy Kensit

  Church, Comfort, Taught

  "Patsy Kensit: My family values". Interview With Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2011.

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• I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing.

  Katherine Moennig

  Girl, Zero, School

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• So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.

  Thomas Keneally

  Sports, School, Australia

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• I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus.

  Tony Orlando

  Jesus, Heart, School

  "Tony Orlando's Brush With Death". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com. October 16, 2013.

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• White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty! We are free at last!"

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Freedom, Men

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• I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

  Dennis Lehane

  Home, Kids, Violent

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• I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years, from eleven to fourteen, and trained to be a Catholic priest. So I was very steeped in all that.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Strong, Years, Four

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• To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.

  Trevor Phillips

  Country, Agency, Law

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• I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.

  Kiki Smith

  Spiritual, Praying, Persons

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• Tie me up, please... Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the depression in the canal they were standing in. She was in his hands-he had to comply. A little bit of kink was one of the most delicious of erotic pleasures. Catholic school girls were often the horniest-Brett could hardly contain his elation.

  Jess C Scott

  Girl, School, Roots

  Jess C. Scott (2011). “Catholic School Girls Rule”, p.25, jessINK

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• Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.

  Mia Love

  Growing Up, Dad, School

  "In Utah, GOP House Candidate Out To Make History". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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• I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Mistake, Guilty, Raised

  "WordPress, Matt Mullenweg" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.

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

  William Mapother

  School, College, Years

  "Going on From Lost, Actor William Mapother Heads to Another Earth". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

  Sofia Vergara

  School, Class, Clown

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• One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.

  Sara Zarr

  Nice, Book, Reading

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• You may be Catholic or Protestant or Buddhist or Baptist or Muslim or Mormon or Jewish or Jain, or you have no religion at all. I'm not interested in your religious background. Because God did not create the universe for us to have religion. He came for us to have a relationship with him.

  Rick Warren

  Religious, Buddhist, Baptists

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• The mission of Tom Peterson and Catholics Come Home to bring souls home to Jesus and the church is critically important during this challenging time in our history. I fully support this New Evangelization project.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Home, Support

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