Catholicism Quotes

• Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Joy, Christ, Oneself

  Pope Benedict XVI (2010). “Heart of the Christian Life: Thoughts on the Holy Mass”, p.25, Ignatius Press

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• If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

  Lenny Bruce

  Jesus, Children, School

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• Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God, which says, 'Thou shalt not kill'. No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God. No one has to obey an immoral law. It is high time you obeyed your consciences rather than sinful orders. The church cannot remain silent before such an abomination. ...In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cry rises to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you: stop the repression.

  Oscar Romero

  Brother, Names, Order

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• In the sacraments, spirit and matter "kiss." Heaven and earth embrace in a union that will never end.

  Christopher West

  Kissing, Heaven, Catholic

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  Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Catholic, Religion, Popcorn

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• The old Catholic church traditions are worth more than all you have said. Here is a principle of logic that most men have no more sense than to adopt. I will illustrate it by an old apple tree. Here jumps off a branch and says, I am the true tree, and you are corrupt. If the whole tree is corrupt, are not its branches corrupt? If the Catholic religion is a false religion, how can any true religion come out of it? If the Catholic church is bad, how can any good thing come out of it?

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Apples, Catholic Religion

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• Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic Church, as it is right they should ... With you, where there is none of these things to attract or keep me... No one shall move me from the faith which binds my mind with ties so many and so strong to the Christian religion... For my part, I should not believe the gospel except as moved by the authority of the Catholic Church.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Strong, Moving

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• That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

  Oscar Romero

  Pain, Self, Blood

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• Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you. Converse with Him confidently and frankly; for God is not wont to speak to a soul that does not speak to Him.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Soul, And Love, Doe

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• I believe that Judaism was an improvement on polytheism; Christianity was an improvement on Judaism (to some degree and in some departments only); that Protestantism is an improvement on Catholicism; that Mormonism is an improvement on Protestantism. So I give Joseph Smith credit as an innovator and as a smart fellow.

  Thomas Ferguson

  Smart, Believe, Giving

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• It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Powerful, Catholic, Church

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• Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!

  Robert Browning

  Strong, Incense, Thick

  'The Bishop Orders his Tomb' (1845) l. 80

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• Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Passion, Fire, Generosity

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• It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

  Lord Byron

  Real, Greek, Doubt

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• Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Country, Mean, History

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.248

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• Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Christian Inspirational, Hiding

  FULTON J. SHEEN (1949). “PEACE OF SOUL”

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• Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

  Saint Patrick

  Faith, Christian, Jesus

  Saint Patrick, Charles Henry Hamilton Wright (1885*). “The Writings of Patrick: The Apostle of Ireland. A Revised Translation with Notes Critical and Historical”

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• Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

  Pat Buchanan

  Catholic, Intellectual, Anti Semitism

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• The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed anything comparable to this? Let the philosopher no longer disdain from listening to the common laborer; the wise, to the simple; the educated, to the illiterate; a child of a prince, to a peasant.

  Anthony of Padua

  Wise, Children, Simple

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• If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

  Margaret Atwood

  Female, Saint, Mary

  Margaret Atwood (1990). “Margaret Atwood: Conversations”, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press

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• Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Pain, Men, Long

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery...is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mother, Mystery, Christ

  John Paul II, Brooke Williams Deely (2014). “Pope John Paul II Speaks on Women”, p.85, CUA Press

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• Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Pain, Punishment, Catholic

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• A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

  Thomas Fuller

  Men, Skills, Littles

  Thomas Fuller (1840). “The Holy State and the Profane State”, p.54

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• Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

  John Adams

  Eye, Simple, Imagination

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.79, UPNE

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