Catholic Quotes - Page 39

• Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.

  Ethel Waters

  Church, Protestants

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• It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Rhetorical Strategies, Law, Libertarian

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• In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Teacher, School

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.154, Canongate Books

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• My mom was very spiritual. We were a Catholic family. We read the Bible at a young age. I have two brothers and a sister. We're all very close. That was part of our childhood. But when I went to college and then got drafted and played in Anaheim, it was a life changer for me. I was exposed to so many things. I was out on my own for the first time.

  Matt Cullen

  Mom, Spiritual, Brother

  "A conversation with Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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• The best thing about being Catholic is that you're a part of something bigger than yourself and you're a part of the community that's been there for 2000 years and it'll be there till the end of time.

  Lino Rulli

  Years, Community, Till The End

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

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• When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Church, Remember, Inspired

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• Hence from all we have hitherto said, it is clear beloved Catholics that we cannot approve the opinions which some [Protestants, Jews, and other heretics] comprise under the head of Americanism [freedom].

  Pope Leo XIII

  Opinion, Beloved, Said

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• At the center of the universe, is a deep abiding love. We are called to be part of it. We Catholics and Christians are not ashamed to believe this. We invite everyone to accept the challenge to live as if we were all loved into existence.

  Jennifer Morse

  Christian, Believe, Challenges

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• Catholics are against abortions. Catholics are against homosexuals. But, I can't think of anyone who has less abortions than homosexuals!

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Abortion, Homosexual

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• I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns. ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being satisfied with what you've done. And a sense that you are inadequate and a big phony. All useful for a writer. I'm always being edited by my inner nun.

  George Saunders

  School, Feelings, Guilt

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• I grew up Irish Catholic with a bunch of kids at Catholic school.

  Brigid Brannagh

  School, Kids, Grew Up

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• I was brought up as a Catholic. I've got A-level guilt.

  Billy Connolly

  Guilt, Levels

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• I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful, New York, Church

  Andy Warhol, Mark Francis, Mattjis Visser, Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2004). “Andy Warhol: the late work”, Prestel Publishing

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• The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder.

  Terence McKenna

  Years, Long, People

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• Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is the business of all religious doctrines to keep their votaries in a state of intellectual infancy (how else do they keep absurdities seeming credible?), insufficient numbers of Catholics have been able to be sensible.

  A.C. Grayling

  Religious, Men, Views

  A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books

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• I'd love to go and visit the Mosque in Mecca again, just for the sheer beauty of it, not for God - much the way a non-Catholic might go to Vatican City because of the beauty of the buildings and the artifacts.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Cities, Mosques, Mecca

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• You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.

  Farah Diba

  Country, Pope, Foreign Countries

  Interview with Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 8, 2014.

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• You can’t trust those damn Catholics.

  Gordon Gee

  Damn

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• What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

  Julianna Baggott

  Mean, Imagination, Soul

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• Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  School, Laughing, Trying

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• There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  School, Dysfunction, Trying

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• I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.

  Michael Caine

  Mother, Father, Married

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• The political structure in different countries has different origins, different developments. Something which suits one country extremely well would perhaps fail completely in another. Germany, through the long centuries of monarchy, has always had a leadership principle. ... The position of the Catholic Church rests now, as before, on the clear leadership principle of its hierarchy. And I think I can also say that of Russia, too.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Thinking, Russia

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• I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.

  Aravind Adiga

  Christian, Father, Community

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• I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.

  Pauline Collins

  Believe, Thinking, Goodness

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