Catholic Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Beware of bad Catholics.

  Saint Augustine

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• It constantly amazes me that men and women wander the earth marveling at the highest mountains, the deepest ocean, the whitest sands, the most exotic islands, the most intriguing birds of the air and fish of the sea - and all the time never stop to marvel at themselves and realize their infinite potential as human beings.

  Matthew Kelly

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.16, BookBaby

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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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• "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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• Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.

  Graham Greene

  Blood, Hands, Water

  The Comedians pt. 3, ch. 4 (1966)

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• We are a people of different faiths, but we are one. Which faith conquers the other is not the question; rather, the question is whether Christianity stands or falls.... We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity... in fact our movement is Christian. We are filled with a desire for Catholics and Protestants to discover one another in the deep distress of our own people.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Fall, Ideas

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• Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun.

  Lino Rulli

  Class, Media, Years

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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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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• I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beatnik

  Jack Kerouac (1990). “Safe in Heaven Dead: Interviews with Jack Kerouac”

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• In a real world, the one outside the rarified atmosphere where Popes meet Archbishops of Canterbury, people no longer care whether somebody is an Anglican or a Roman Catholic. They already take it for granted that being a "believer" is more important than having a denominational name-tag any day of the week.

  Tom Harpur

  Real, Names, People

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• I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in a religious community, as an agnostic graduate student, as - but who cares about my disguises? Or God's.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Religious, Children, Years

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• That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's Latin liturgy. So say the lexicologists.

  L. M. Boyd

  Latin, Church, Hocus Pocus

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• In Bolivia there are Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist churches, and so on. In Bolivia there are indigenous religious beliefs like the rite of Pachamama Mother Earth, which shows us that Mother Earth is our life, we are born out of the Earth we live on the Earth and return to the Earth.

  Evo Morales

  Mother, Religious, Church

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• I've always felt at home in the Church. Catholics are often more laid back than they are given credit for - presumably because at the back of their minds they realize that, if necessary, they can always confess everything to their local priest.

  Jens Spahn

  Home, Mind, Church

  "Out on the Right: On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic". Interview with Markus Feldenkirchen and René Pfister, www.spiegel.de. November 23, 2012.

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• I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.

  Brendan Behan

  Dark, Communist

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• It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.

  Fran Lebowitz

  School, People, Gone

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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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• [The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Ignorance, Fire, Shadow Of Death

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.161, SUNY Press

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• I think just the above things. I think I wanted to learn from both cultures. So, I think the music is a little more reflective of the... Catholic culture but the theology, obviously, is much more Reformational.

  Keith Getty

  Thinking, Culture, Littles

  "Composer/performer Keith Getty is celebrating an Irish Christmas at venues across the USA". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. December 5, 2014.

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• For better or worse, US Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian. You know what a cafeteria catholic is?

  Paul Samuelson

  Cafeteria, Keynesianism, Knows

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• Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

  Elizabeth George

  School, Lakes, Years

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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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