Catholicism Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.

  Joan Van Ark

  Quests, Conscious, Arcs

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• We have to go on until Islam is made as ho-hum as Catholicism.

  Charb

  Islam, Goes On, Made

  "The Slain Editor Of Charlie Hebdo's Last Cartoon Is Tragically Prescient" by Pierre Bienaimé, www.businessinsider.com. January 7, 2015.

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• Catholicism has changed tremendously in recent years. Now when Communion is served there is also a salad bar.

  Bill Maher

  Years, Bars, Salad

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• He loved us personally...centuries before we were born.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Century, Born

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• Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches with which the apostles held constant intercourse, and learn from them what is certain and clear in regard to the present question? For how should it be if the apostles themselves had not left us writings? Would it not be necessary, in that case, to follow the course of the tradition which they handed down to those to whom they did commit the Churches?

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Writing, Church, Important

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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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• 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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• What you find I think in the mystical strain of Catholicism is that you're put in relationship with God, and you have many opportunities not only of talking with God in petitionary prayer, but also of listening to God, being attentive to God, as happens in contemplation.

  Kevin Hart

  Prayer, Opportunity, Thinking

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". Interview with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought, of brain; Protestantism, the tomb of conscience, of feeling, of heart.

  Louis Auguste Blanqui

  Heart, Feelings, Brain

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• Seeing there are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors, yet as the teaching of the Church, transmitted in orderly succession from the apostles, and remaining in the Churches to the present day, is still preserved, that alone is to be accepted as truth which differs in no respect from ecclesiastical and apostolica tradition.

  Origen

  Teaching, Thinking, Church

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.54, Jazzybee Verlag

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• As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world, it may be understood that they are held as approved and instituted either by the apostles themselves, or by plenary Councils, whose authority in the Church is most useful, e.g. the annual commemoration, by special solemnities, of the Lord's passion, resurrection, and ascension, and of the descent of the Holy Spirit from heaven, and whatever else is in like manner observed by the whole Church wherever it has been established.

  Saint Augustine

  Passion, Heaven, Special

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• The best advice that I can give you is this. Church-traditions — especially when they do not run counter to the faith — are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down; and the use of one church is not to be annulled because it is contrary to that of another.

  St. Jerome

  Running, Law, Giving

  "The Sacred Writings of St. Jerome".

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• Paul commands: 'Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the Traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.' From this it is clear that they did not hand down everything by letter, but there is much also that was not written. Like that which was written, the unwritten too is worthy of belief. So let us regard the Tradition of the Church also as worthy of belief. Is it a Tradition? Seek no further.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Hands, Church, Letters

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• Such is the grace and power of baptism; not an overwhelming of the world as of old, but a purification of the sins of each individual, and a complete cleansing from all the bruises and stains of sin. And since we are double-made, I mean of body and soul, and the one part is visible, the other invisible, so the cleansing also is twofold, by water and the Spirit; the one received visibly in the body, the other concurring with it invisibly and apart from the body; the one typical, the other real and cleansing the depths.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Real, Mean, Water

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• Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him, known as the Lateran Pact of 1929. Under the terms of this deal, Catholicism became the only recognized religion in Italy, with monopoly powers over matters such as birth, marriage, death, and education, and in return urged its followers to vote for Mussolini's party. Pope Pius XI described II Duce (“the leader”) as “a man sent by providence.”

  Christopher Hitchens

  Party, Men, Europe

  "God Is Not Great".

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• Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Feet, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.277, Library of Alexandria

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• People didn't really like McDonald's, same as her mum didn't really like Catholicism, but when you were new in town, at least it was a known quantity. So that'll be a Quarter-Pounder and a Communion Wafer meal-deal to go.

  Christopher Brookmyre

  Mcdonalds, People, Meals

  Christopher Brookmyre (2009). “Pandaemonium”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

  Kiki Smith

  Spiritual, Art, Believe

  "Learning by Looking - Witches, Catholicism, and Buddhist Art". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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• Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution on earth. () How come, that such an institution, ruling in the name of this same itinerant preacher, whose want was such that he had not even a pillow upon which to rest his head, is now so top-heavy with riches that she can rival - indeed, that she can put to shame - the combined might of the most redoubtable financial trusts, of the most potent industrial super-giants, and of the most prosperous global corporation of the world?

  Avro Manhattan

  Jesus, Names, Church

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