Catholic Quotes - Page 29

• I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

  Antony Gormley

  Monk, Educated

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• To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.

  Donatella Versace

  Limits, Sin

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

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• An effort to declare the ban on contraception ‘infallible’ would have the immediate effect of focusing Catholic dissent on the doctrine of infallibility itself. . . . A storm of dissent, and even ridicule, directed at infallibility itself would ensue from such a declaration.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Effort, Storm, Doctrine

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• Through the confessional system the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.

  Julian Assange

  Latin, People, Understanding

  "Julian Assange rails against surveillance on Today programme" by Mattew Weaver, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2014.

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• If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.

  Pope Pius IX

  Pope, Teach, Contrary

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• With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.

  Steve Garvey

  Principles, Good Times, Wells

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• Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.

  Norman Geisler

  Errors, Church, Sound

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• I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt.

  George Stroumboulopoulos

  School, Uniforms, Shirts

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• Epic: A Journey Through Church History fills an urgent need for adult Catholics to recover their history as a believing community, debunk false criticisms of their Church, and understand the Christian underpinnings of the modern world. This is a vivid, thorough and engaging program. I heartily recommend it.

  Charles J. Chaput

  Christian, Believe, Epic

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• Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... its a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.

  Malaika Arora Khan

  Sweet, Morning, Light

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• I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I cant enjoy anything.

  Kyle Kinane

  Midwest, Enjoy, Raised

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• Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.

  Maria Monk

  Book, Different, Renounce

  Maria MONK, William MONK (pseud?.), Rev. J. J. SLOCUM (1837). “Awful Disclosures ... Second edition, revised by the Rev. J. J. Slocum”, p.40

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• Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death of Voltaire there were millions less than when he was born.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Years, Atheism, Twenties

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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• My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic.

  Regina Doman

  Parent, Renewal, Raised

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• I went to work for Catholics United for the Faith, and I basically found myself in the midst of the traditionalist branch of the Catholic revival. There is an intellectual rigor that is very much valued there and that I was in awe of.

  Regina Doman

  Intellectual, Branches, Revival

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• For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.

  Regina Doman

  Years, Hearing, Fiction

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• In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism, and to preserve the spiritual and temporal supremacy which the popes [had] 'usurped' during the Middle Ages, Rome now 'sold' the [Roman Catholic] Church to the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Jesuits]; in essence the popes surrendered themselves into their hands.

  John Daniel

  Spiritual, Jesus, Agreement

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• The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, was a series of conflicts that became the last great struggle of religious wars in Europe. It was fought almost exclusively on German soil...but before the war ended, it involved most of the nations of Europe. The underlying cause of the war was the deep-seated hostility between the German Protestants and German Catholics - with the Jesuits and Cardinal Richelieu, who was the real ruler of France, fanning the fires to accomplish their ends.

  John Daniel

  Religious, Real, War

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• Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?

  Sitting Bull

  Doe, Different, Baptists

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured - perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in - for that should be important only to me - but what kind of America I believe in.

  John F. Kennedy

  Real, Believe, America

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate, wherever possible, in the administration of civil affairs; must constantly exert the utmost vigilance and energy to prevent the usages of liberty from going beyond the limits fixed by God's law. All Catholics should do all in their power to cause the constitutions of states and legislation to be modeled on the principles of the true Church.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Country, Law, Scary

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• They say the Catholic church played a big role in the genocide... and now they have me, a bishop, as proof, a prize to say there, that's what they did.

  Augustin Misago

  Scary, Church, Bishops

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• God has chosen, through his son Jesus Christ, this time, this place for all Christians - Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox - to save our country and save our courts.

  William H. Pryor, Jr.

  Christian, Country, Jesus

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• [Non-Catholic Christians are] in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the [Roman Catholic] church, have the fullness of the means of salvation.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Mean, Scary

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• Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.

  George Carlin

  School, Independent, Thinking

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