Catholic Quotes - Page 34

• I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.

  Kate Atkinson

  Thinking, Would Be, Glitter

  "Emotionally weird? Moi?". Interview with Kim Bunce, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2000.

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• One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that.

  Robert Hughes

  Miracle, Tourism, Firsts

  "Barcelona". Book by Robert Hughes, 1992.

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• I don't consider myself to be a media guy. It just happens to be that I've had opportunities in the media. I don't consider myself to be on a career path. I'm just a Christian and a Catholic priest.

  Jonathan Morris

  Christian, Opportunity, Media

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• People - Catholics and non-Catholics - are amazingly open to begin again in their walk with Jesus and in the Church when they hear clarity and honesty. What they don't put up with, thank God, is dishonesty and cover-up. And so I speak as openly as I possibly can about the difficulties of the Church because we shouldn't be afraid to call out an abuse of the wonderful gift God gives to us of the Church. When we - its members and its leaders - are imperfect we need to change. We need to begin again. That begins with honesty.

  Jonathan Morris

  Jesus, Honesty, People

  "Father Jonathan Morris talks about working with Mel Gibson, Fox News, self-help books and running The Cat". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. June 2012.

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• If you're going to say you're Catholic, you inform your conscience so that you're activities will conform to what God is telling us through the Church. If God is telling you something outside of that, well, the Church will look at that and say: we think it is true or we don't think it is true. The Church might say: that might be true for you but it has no public normative value.

  Francis George

  Thinking, Church, Might

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• I did a lot of strange things. But I am a bad Catholic that's for sure. Although I think it's difficult to believe in evil.

  Lars von Trier

  Believe, Thinking, Evil

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• "I’m not Catholic, I’m not Orthodox…" and I wouldn’t even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don’t want to divide people so anything that I say is something that must be so big and great that it did encompass everyone and it’s love.

  Ziggy Marley

  People, Want, Bigs

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The character I play has all these revolutionary ideas. I think the classic thing is that majority people who are criticising it probably have never read the books, and need to. And I'm sure that the Catholic Church, which is being directed as you know, can handle it.

  Daniel Craig

  Book, Character, Thinking

  "Daniel Craig Is Lord Asriel in The Golden Compass". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 4, 2007.

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• Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

  Diane Lane

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Guilt

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• Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.

  Cillian Murphy

  School, Generations, Catechism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We'd rather have faithful Jews, Baptists or Buddhists than some of the Catholics who nearly run you over in the parking lot after Mass.

  George Patterson

  Running, Buddhist, Faithful

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• The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and controversial radio broadcaster] Father Coughlin and [racist and anti-Semitic agitator and founder of the Christian Nationalist Crusade] Gerald L.K. Smith started out as share-the-wealth socialists.

  James Ellroy

  Christian, Father, Guy

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• My spiritual life is an interesting thing. It's pretty private. I was raised Catholic in the Baptist Bible belt, so my spirituality was challenged and very much a private thing and it continues to be.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Spiritual, Interesting, Baptists

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.

  Karen Armstrong

  Missing, Theologian, Upbringing

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as the Roman Catholic Church and as protesting against abuses and as much focused on the individual in his direct relationship with Christ as the Evangelicals, as charismatic as the Pentecostals, as missionary-minded as the old mainline denominations, as focused on holiness as the Methodists or the Quakers, as committed to the social aspects of the Gospel as the social activists, as Biblical as fundamentalists, and as mystical as the Eastern Orthodox.

  Peter Kreeft

  Biblical, Abuse, Church

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• Protestants do not very often disagree with what Catholics believe, but they do very often disagree with what they think Catholics believe.

  Dwight Longenecker

  Believe, Thinking, Protestants

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• You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you’re reading G.K. Chesterton, then you’re a Catholic.

  Ross Douthat

  Reading

  "Ross Douthat’s Fantasy World". Interview with Mark Oppenheimer, www.motherjones.com. January 2010.

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• If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Church, Today, Looks

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• We're Catholics before we're Democrats. We're Catholics before we're Republicans. We're even Catholics before we're Americans, because we know that God has a demand on us prior to any government demand on us. And this has been the story of the martyrs through the centuries.

  Charles J. Chaput

  Government, Stories, Demand

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• A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Ideas, May, Faces

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• It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics are making today in reverse. They think you can love heretics by loving heresies.

  Peter Kreeft

  Stupid, Mistake, Thinking

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• Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

  Peter Kreeft

  Fire, Together, Steel

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• Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.

  Donald Wuerl

  Church, Purpose, Stories

  Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Mike Aquilina (2013). “The Church: Unlocking the Secrets to the Places Catholics Call Home”, p.19, Image

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• Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.

  John Bosco

  Book, Reading, God Knows

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• Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  School, People, Saint

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