Catholicism Quotes - Page 12

• If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

  Brian Eno

  Strong, Growing Up, Ideas

  "On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno". Interview with Paul Morley, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2010.

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• My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

  Marilyn Manson

  Mother, Memories, Father

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• I can't bear Catholicism.

  George Michael

  Bears, I Can

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• It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Women, Heart

  Pope Benedict XVI, Peter Seewald (2002). “God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald”, p.199, Ignatius Press

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• I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.

  Conor McPherson

  Thinking, Roots, Spirit

  "Interview: Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of ‘The Eclipse’". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.com. March 25, 2010.

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• ...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Party

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As long as leadership from above was not lacking, the people fulfilled their duty and obligation overwhelmingly. Whether Protestant pastor or Catholic priest, both together and particularly at the first flare, there really existed in both camps but a single holy German Reich, for whose existence and future each man turned to his own heaven.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Men, Long

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• Political parties has nothing to do with religious problems, as long as these are not alien to the nation, undermining the morals and ethics of the race; just as religion cannot be amalgamated with the scheming of political parties.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Party, Race

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Chapter 3 - "Political Reflections Arising Out of My Sojourn in Vienna", 1925.

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• For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of his people must always remain inviolable; or else has no right to be in politics, but should become a reformer, if he has what it takes!

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, People, Leader

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and well-planned.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Attitude

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought to its end, then take a look at the peoples five hundred years from now. I think you will find but few images of God, unless you want to profane the Almighty.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Thinking, Years

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. The various substitutes have not proved so successful from the standpoint of results that they could be regarded as a useful replacement for previous religious creeds. But if religious doctrine and faith are really to embrace the broad masses, the unconditional authority of the content of this faith is the foundation of all efficacy.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Attitude, Successful

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• Anyone who dares to lay hands on the highest image of the Lord commits sacrilege against the benevolent creator of this miracle and contributes to the expulsion from paradise.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Hands, Miracle

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wouldn't have known anything about Catholicism if I hadn't been dating Gert. In those days, Catholics were much less ecumenical than they are today. Gert was always of the mind that she wouldn't go to another church except the Catholic Church. So when I would date her in New York City and later when we went to Oxford before we got married we always went to the Catholic church.

  Wesley Clark

  New York, Cities, Oxford

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn our backs on them, so for us, health care reform is a faith-based response to human need.

  Simone Campbell

  People, Suffering, Reform

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• Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance.

  William Levada

  Needs, Alcoholics, Whole

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• The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal.

  William Levada

  Children, Elderly, Plight

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• It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Men, Mind, Body

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.159, TAN Books

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• Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to the designs of the all-wise Creator.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wise, Design, Catholic

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation.

  Pope John XXIII

  Justice, Sincere, Individual

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• I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Atheist, Catholic, Would Be

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “Collected Works”, New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press

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• If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, Differences, Catholic

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.103, Macmillan

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• Christ did not found an abstract religion, a mere school of religious thought. He setup a community of apostles, of teachers, with the task of spreading His message and so giving rise to a society of believers: His Church. He promised the Spirit of truth to His Church and then sent Him.

  Pope Paul VI

  Teacher, Religious, School

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• No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Hands, Harm

  Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.249, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to love them. I shall do everything for Heaven, my true home. There I shall find my Mother in all the splendor of her glory. I shall delight with her in the joy of Jesus himself in perfect safety.

  Bernadette Soubirous

  Mother, Jesus, Home

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