Catholic Quotes - Page 28

• The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

  Jon Voight

  Mistake, Ideas, Important

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

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• I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

  Brian Dennehy

  Dna, Hell Raising, Hell

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• I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.

  Bill Maher

  Police, Church, Infallible

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• I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

  Imelda Staunton

  Guilt, Pleasure

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2013.

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• I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.

  Martin Scorsese

  New York, Italian, America

  "Martin Scorsese Defends 'The Wolf of Wall Street': 'The Devil Comes With a Smile' (Q&A)". Interview with Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 31, 2013.

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• Indeed I cannot doubt that there has been really one grand empire, or one Universal, one Pandæan, or one Catholic religion, with one language, which has extended over the whole of the world; uniting or governing at the same time.

  Godfrey Higgins

  Catholic Religion, Doubt, World

  Godfrey Higgins (2014). “Anacalypsis”, p.246, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I don't know about being a Catholic anymore, though I had a great romance with the Church. But its male hierarchy causes me pain and distress. So I can't really pay too much attention. When that encyclical from the Pope - the one about contraception - began 'Dear Sons and Brothers' I figured it must be private mail and had nothing to do with me. So I didn't read it.

  Joan Hackett

  Brother, Pain, Son

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• I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the sporty good girl.

  Taylor Cole

  Girl, School, Kids

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• Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.

  George W. Bush

  Teaching, School, Humor

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• But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects which dissented from the catholic church were afflicted and oppressed by the triumph of Christianity. Constantine easily believed that the heretics, who presumed to dispute his opinions or to oppose his commands, were guilty of the most absurd and criminal obstinacy; and that a seasonable application of moderate severities might save those unhappy men from the danger of an everlasting condemnation.

  Edward Gibbon

  Men, History, Unhappy

  Edward Gibbon (1837). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.292

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• Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price of an episcopal vote; and the condemnation of the Alexandrian primate was artfully represented as the only measure which could restore the peace and union of the catholic church.

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Church, Liberty

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.39

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• The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of the monks, who faithfully served him as guards, as secretaries, and as messengers; but the importance of maintaining a more intimate connection with the catholic party tempted him, whenever the diligence of the pursuit was abated, to emerge from the desert, to introduce himself into Alexandria, and to trust his person to the discretion of his friends and adherents.

  Edward Gibbon

  Retirement, Party, History

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.437, Wordsworth Editions

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• Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.

  Sonia Orwell

  Children, Childhood, Nostalgia

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• This is the heritage of Catholic education ... one which those who went to Catholic schools always recognize in each other, members of a secret society who, when they meet, huddle together, temporarily at truce with the rest of the world, while they cautiously, untrustingly, lick each other's wounds.

  Sonia Orwell

  School, Secret, Together

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• I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Religious, Real, Blood

  "Any answers?". Interview with Adrian Searle, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2004.

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• I wasn't raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much. I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven't let Him down regardless.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Believe, School, Mean

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• One might just as well trust in the "good luck" of a rabbit's foot as to hope for spiritual benefit from a Catholic scapular, medal, crucifix, or relic of an alleged "saint."

  Dave Hunt

  Spiritual, Good Luck, Feet

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• I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church.

  John McGahern

  Mean, Thinking, Church

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• We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was their total absence of any derogatory talk about people of any race or culture and we were on a street of many faiths, though no other races at that early time.

  Trina

  Religious, School, Sunday

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• The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Littles, Superstitions, Belief

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• I'm a Catholic, and I have always been fascinated by not just my religion, but religion in general, in the sense that it is the ultimate brand that they're trying to sell. Whereas Ford is trying to sell cars, the Vatican is trying to sell salvation, which is a much better product to be peddling.

  Tom Fontana

  Car, Trying, Salvation

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's fine, that's wonderful. What I am against is labelling. Nobody ever labels a child a cricketer because his father is a cricketer, but they do label a child a Catholic because his parents are Catholic. I think it's more or less unique. Nobody ever labels a child a socialist or a conservative or a liberal because that's what their parents are.

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Father, Unique

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". "Science Show" with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• I was brought up Catholic and we show my mom, my mother, my sister and then I take pains to explain on camera, that there were years after that where I wasn't really religious. I certainly wasn't a Catholic anymore, but I still lived with some mythical man in my head. I didn't really put a name to a face, but I just knew that if I was in trouble or scared I would go, 'Oh God, please help me get out of this one.'

  Bill Maher

  Mom, Mother, Religious

  "Bill Maher Gets Ridiculous with Religulous". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.

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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 went to Catholic school for 12 years and went to church every Sunday. I may not do that anymore but I think it gave me a good basis. I've also explored things on my own different philosophies and spiritual teachings and I use what works for me.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Teaching

  "Jennifer Lopez talks Shall We Dance?". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. October 13, 2004.

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