Catholic Quotes - Page 29

• 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 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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• 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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• I'm a good Catholic boy.

  Zakk Wylde

  Boys

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• Tie me up, please... Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the depression in the canal they were standing in. She was in his hands-he had to comply. A little bit of kink was one of the most delicious of erotic pleasures. Catholic school girls were often the horniest-Brett could hardly contain his elation.

  Jess C Scott

  Girl, School, Roots

  Jess C. Scott (2011). “Catholic School Girls Rule”, p.25, jessINK

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• Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.

  Mia Love

  Growing Up, Dad, School

  "In Utah, GOP House Candidate Out To Make History". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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• I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Mistake, Guilty, Raised

  "WordPress, Matt Mullenweg" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.

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• No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

  James McGreevey

  Practice, Damnation, Relief

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• You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

  Sofia Vergara

  School, Class, Clown

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• One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.

  Sara Zarr

  Nice, Book, Reading

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• You may be Catholic or Protestant or Buddhist or Baptist or Muslim or Mormon or Jewish or Jain, or you have no religion at all. I'm not interested in your religious background. Because God did not create the universe for us to have religion. He came for us to have a relationship with him.

  Rick Warren

  Religious, Buddhist, Baptists

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• The mission of Tom Peterson and Catholics Come Home to bring souls home to Jesus and the church is critically important during this challenging time in our history. I fully support this New Evangelization project.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Home, Support

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• Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church.

  Pope John XXIII

  Jesus, Church, Holy

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• Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare.

  Jeb Bush

  Organization, Obamacare, President

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• I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a film today'. I'm aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes.

  Stephen Daldry

  Morning, Directors, Wake Up

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• You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.

  Cheech Marin

  Being Played, Clergy, Jew

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 22, 2008.

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• A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Cat, Vegetarianism, Vegetables

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• Hear Mass daily; it will prosper the whole day. All your duties will be performed the better for it, and your soul will be stronger to bear its daily cross. The Mass is the most holy act of religion; you can do nothing that can give greater glory to God or be more profitable for your soul than to hear Mass both frequently and devoutly. It is the favorite devotion of the saints.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Faith, Inspiration, Giving

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• When we stand in the light it is not we who illumine the light and cause it to shine but we are illuminated and made shining by the light... God grants his blessings on those who serve him because they are serving him and on those who follow him because they are following him, but he receives no blessing from them because he is perfect and without need

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Blessing, Light, Perfect

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• Everyone works in the service of man. We doctors work directly on man himself... The great mystery of man is Jesus: 'He who visits a sick person, helps me,' Jesus said... Just as the priest can touch Jesus, so do we touch Jesus in the bodies of our patients... We have opportunities to do good that the priest doesn't have. Our mission is not finished when medicines are no longer of use. We must bring the soul to God; our word has some authority... Catholic doctors are so necessary!

  Gianna Beretta Molla

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.

  Galileo Galilei

  Heart, Errors, Church

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• The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Travel, Mind, Educated

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore.

  Christopher

  Song, Light, Thunder

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• Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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