Catholic Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need.

  David Bowie

  Love Is, Wish, And Love

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• Catholic girls with tiny little mustaches.

  Frank Zappa

  Girl, Religious, Mustache

  Song: Catholic Girls

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• He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Religious, Buddhist, Atheist

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• I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

  Mia Farrow

  Thinking, Guilt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Talking, Belief, Priests

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• I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.

  Frances O'Connor

  Thinking, Giving, Fundamentals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of religious expression, a basic human right, is not upheld in our midst as widely and as completely as it should be.

  Keith O'Brien

  Religious, Scotland, Voice

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• I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Religious, Children, Two

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.82, Penguin

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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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• Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.

  Danny Pudi

  Thinking, Able, My Family

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2010.

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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'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Religious, Jesus, Church

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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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• It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.

  Trevor Phillips

  Men, Doors, Law

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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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