Catholic Quotes - Page 27

• I don’t want to slam somebody else’s religion. I mean as a Catholic, we’re basically cannibals: We eat Jesus every Sunday, you know? So who am I to say your religion is creepy?

  Larry Wilmore

  Jesus, Mean, Sunday

  "Larry Wilmore on Race, Politics, and Mormonism". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. August 24, 2012.

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• We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's a punch in the belly to see what has happened in the church and the world. Dualistic thinking seems to have taken over the church and our politics to a really neurotic degree.

  Richard Rohr

  Growing Up, Taken, Thinking

  Source: day1.org

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• We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think about a Buddhist, or a Hindu, or Muslim, or even a Protestant - I grew up in such a Catholic ghetto. That's not possible anymore, unless you live in a cave or something. So either we have knowledge of what the other religions and other denominations are saying, and how they tie into the common thread, or we end up just being dangerously ignorant of other people and therefore prejudiced.

  Richard Rohr

  Buddhist, Growing Up, Ghetto

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• I've begun to recognize myself as a Catholic writer because my whole notion of the image, of symbol, of art and what it can do, has been conditioned by my immersion in Catholic culture, ritual, and art since my earliest days. Catholicism seeped into me through every pore. Catholicism is about seeping and pores!

  Joyelle McSweeney

  Art, Culture, Immersion

  "'Art as a sacred event'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. April 7, 2015.

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• Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert that abstruse philosophy and metaphysical jargon, which, being mixed up with popular superstition, renders it in a manner impenetrable to careless reasoners, and gives it the air of science and wisdom.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Air, Giving

  David Hume (1854). “The Philosophical Works of David Hume: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Editions Pub. by the Author”, p.9

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• Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than going into a Catholic church in Spain with your upper arms bare. It is worse than telling a mother her baby bores you.

  Ilka Chase

  Mother, Baby, Bores You

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• To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.

  Susan Sarandon

  Firsts, University

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• Moving from unbelief, to Evangelicalism, and finally home to the Catholic Church, Professor Holly Ordway reveals how a gifted mind, longing for transcendence, can only appropriate it if it is wholly given by the reach and power of God's grace.

  Francis J. Beckwith

  Moving, Home, Grace

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• Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.

  Amy Sedaris

  School, Stories, Ears

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• And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.

  Howard Fast

  Buddhist, Promise, Quiet

  Howard Fast (2011). “The Art of Zen Meditation”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• There was no known cure for a Catholic education.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Religion, Cures, Known

  "Mistaken Identity". Book by Lisa Scottoline, 1999.

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• I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.

  Joyce Johnson

  Believe, Miracle, Tea

  Joyce Johnson (1990). “Minor Characters”, Washington Square Pr

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• Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet.

  Irene Thomas

  Pills, May, Tablets

  In 'Guardian' 28 December 1990, p. 27

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• I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Encounters, Consistent, Raised

  "The 'True Detective' Creator Debunks Your Craziest Theories". Interview with Kate Aurthur, www.buzzfeed.com. March 6, 2014.

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• Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I cant say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I dont do it, it plagues me.

  Bradley Cooper

  Guilt, Favors, Ask Me

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• The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Language, Consciousness, Speak

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• I was raised in an Italian catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland. Our faith is very important to us, our patriotism, love of faith, love of family, love of country. I took pride in our Italian American heritage and to be the first woman speaker of the House and the first Italian American speaker of the House, it's quite thrilling for me.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Pride, Italian

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think the people can bash Catholics because they know Catholics won't kill them. Quite frankly, there's some religions out there, you bash and they're going to kill you.

  Dennis Miller

  Thinking, People, Bash

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Math, Views, Engineering

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.

  George Sanders

  Buddhist

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I feel like if I am physically and emotionally able to be at the theater, I will be there. I don't like not being there - I don't like playing hooky. I am just one of those people who feels really, really guilty if I am not there - maybe it's part of being Catholic.

  Lea Salonga

  People, Able, Being There

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was closely identified with the Franco and Salazar dictatorships in Spain and Portugal. . . . More recently, . . . the Serbian Orthodox Church has come to be identified with the policies of Serbia (Yugoslavia).

  Edd Doerr

  Government, Yugoslavia, White

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• I come from a very, very Catholic family. We used to pray the rosary every day after dinner.

  Juanes

  Rosary, Dinner, Praying

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• I know that you observe Christmas Day as you learned it at home. I do not observe it. However, as assistant director of this prison, I allow all the Catholics to observe freely and with some joy this day in this home.

  Odilo Globocnik

  Home, Joy, Directors

  "In Tito's Death Marches and Extermination Camps" by Joseph Hecimovic, John Prcela, (p. 163), 1962.

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• Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family.

  Gene Cernan

  Mom, Strong, Belief

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