Catholic Quotes - Page 24

• One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Judging, Minorities, Agnostic

  West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (dissenting opinion) (1943)

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• It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.

  Carl Sagan

  Book, Punishment, Soul

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.62, Ballantine Books

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• I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the mystery of life or life in general.

  Robert Gober

  Thinking, Childhood, Benefits

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• The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.

  Peter Drucker

  Eight, Years, Law

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• People who are atheists, they hate God, they hate the expression of God, and they are angry with the world, angry with themselves, angry with society and they take it out on innocent people who are worshipping God. And whether it's a Sikh temple, or a Baptist church, or a Catholic church, or a Muslim mosque - whatever it is - I just abhor this kind of violence, and it's the kind of thing that we should do something about.

  Pat Robertson

  Atheist, Hate, Expression

  "Pat Robertson Links 'Hate' of God to Wis. Sikh Temple Shooting" by Katherine Weber, www.christianpost.com. August 06, 2012.

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• Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

  Anton Chekhov

  Merit, Virtue, Orthodox

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, November 18, 1891.

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• I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose.
  We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might some day force theirs on us.

  Mario Cuomo

  Believe, Atheism, Might

  "Religious Belief and Public Morality: A Catholic Governor's Perspective". John A. O'Brien Lecture in the University of Notre Dame's Department of Theology, archives.nd.edu. September 13, 1984.

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• My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have a lot of money. And when I came back to my neighborhood, it was tough to fit in there, too, because I was wearing Catholic school clothes, and I had two parents, which was rare.

  Ryan Coogler

  School, Two, Clothes

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• We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Sunset, Sleep

  Henry David Thoreau (1973). “Winter: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”

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• In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it also produced, in reaction to the emptiness of this self-affirmation, the desire to return to a collective. Schlegel, and with him many extreme individualists in the last hundred years, became Roman Catholics. The courage to be as oneself broke down, and one turned to an institutional embodiment of the courage to be as a part.

  Paul Tillich

  Men, Self, Years

  "The Courage to Be" by Paul Tillich, (p. 117), 1952.

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• The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Church, Divinity, Might

  "The Life of Hilaire Belloc". Book by Robert Speaight, 1957.

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• Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from his fellow-Protestants more bitter than anything he had ever experienced from Catholics.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Heartbroken, Dogma, Bitter

  ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1910). “SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON”

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• The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his studies, his reading, his professors, his associates, all were combined to keep from him any results of observation or reflection save those prescribed: probably, of all means for stifling healthy and helpful thought, a theological seminary, as then conducted whether Catholic or Protestant, Jewish or Mohammedan, was the most perfect.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Wall, Reading, Mean

  "Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason". Book by Andrew Dickson White, p. 165, 1915.

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• After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in promoting an evolution doctrine as regards the mechanical formation of the solar system... but his constant dread of persecution, both from Catholics and Protestants, led him steadily to veil his thoughts and even to suppress them. ...Since Roger Bacon, perhaps, no great thinker had been so completely abased and thwarted by theological oppression.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Veils, Half, Roger

  "A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom". Book by Andrew Dickson White, Vol.1, Ch.1: The Visible Universe, p. 57, 1896.

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• I do not want "Mormonism" to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins.

  Brigham Young

  Wicked, Church, Mormonism

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• If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, 'Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus' [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility.

  James G. Frazer

  Hands, Magic, Church

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Hate, Gay

  Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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• Henceforward the Christian Churches having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, came into the hands of the Encratites: and the Heathens, who in the fourth century came over in great numbers to the Christians, embraced more readily this sort of Christianity, as having a greater affinity with their old superstitions, than that of the sincere Christians; who by the lamps of the seven Churches of Asia, and not by the lamps of the Monasteries, had illuminated the Church Catholic during the three first centuries.

  Isaac Newton

  Christian, Numbers, Hands

  Isaac Newton “Observations”, Lulu.com

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• I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .

  Aleister Crowley

  Believe, Love Life, Light Life

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.360, Weiser Books

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• The (Catholic) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco's invasion of Spain to destroy the Spanish republic with a Muslim mercenary army in the thirties, on the side of Hitler.

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Army, Church

  "Tim Russert" (Talk-Show on CNBC), September 25, 2004.

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• I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.

  Neve Campbell

  Lineage, Ask Me, Asks

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• I am catholic. And I don't like to see catholicism being brought into disrepute by those in charge who don't seem to believe in God at all... they act like they don't think God is watching.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Believe, Thinking, Seems

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I went to an all-girls Catholic school. And all the nuns just breathed down our necks "abstinence." And that's not the right thing to do. It does not work. Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest. You have to say, "You know what, if you're gonna do it, at least think about the consequences and get protection.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Girl, School, Kids

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• The drunk kids, the catholics They're all about the same They're waiting for something Hoping to be saved

  Conor Oberst

  Kids, Drunk, Waiting

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• I didn't know you were Catholic.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Support, Knees, Bills

  "Perspectives". Newsweek, Volume 152, No. 14, November 6, 2008.

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