Catholic Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask actual Catholics, you discover that more than 90% of Catholic women use contraception and Catholic women seem to need and choose legal abortion at about the same rate as everybody else. The problem is that the backlash occupies positions of power, not that it represents the majority of people.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Position Of Power, People

  Source: bluestockingsmag.com

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• You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mean, Interesting, Doe

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1966). “A Hopkins reader: selections”

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• I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Girl, Baby, Attitude

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• Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Mind, Arbitrary

  Herman Melville (1963). “Works: Billy Budd, and other prose pieces, edited by R. W. Weaver”

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• Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem.

  Stephen Colbert

  Family, Leadership, Jobs

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• Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Rosary, Beads, Rosary Beads

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• The time for letting the Christian bashing go on essentially unchallenged has come to an end... There is a great need for a Christian anti-defamation league. To some degree, there is such an organization emerging on the horizon, the Catholic League... I have had it on my heart for about a decade - and have even expressed the thought - that a Christian anti-defamation league would be helpful.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, Heart

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• I'm a Christian. I was born and raised a Catholic. But I think there are people that are frauds that are ministers.

  Sean Hannity

  Christian, Thinking, People

  "Medium John Edward Explains Ability". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 17, 2009.

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• In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system of rule. We managed to get by without this absolutist system for 1,000 years. The problems began in the 11th century, when the popes asserted their claim to absolute control over the Church.

  Hans Kung

  Views, Years, Community

  "'A Putinization of the Catholic Church'". Interview with Martin Doerry, Ulrich Schwarz and Peter Wensierski, www.spiegel.de. September 21, 2011.

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• I was the biggest George Harrison fanatic in the world. He was raised Catholic; my parents are both ex-clergy, so I was raised Catholic, and I admired how he used his faith.

  John Fugelsang

  Parent, World, Used

  Source: chuckdaly.wordpress.com

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• I am a Catholic. Basically, the Catholic religion is 'If it feels good - stop.'

  Adam Ferrara

  Funny, Humor, Catholic Religion

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• I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  Teaching, Stuff, Christianity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment.

  Grimes

  Crazy, School, Childhood

  "Grimes: 'Genesis'". Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. August 27, 2012.

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• Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.

  Matthew Kelly

  Prayer, Great Love, Dating

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.158, BookBaby

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• It's at the core of the Catholic faith, and to imagine how we are going to succeed in our country unless we have committed family life, a child-centered family system, is hard to imagine.

  Jeb Bush

  Life, Country, Children

  "Jeb Bush stands by opposition to same-sex marriage" by Alexandra Jaffe, www.cnn.com. May 18, 2015.

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