Catholicism Quotes - Page 14

• Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and only arise from a definite spiritual conviction. Any violence which does not spring from a firm, spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain.

  Adolf Hitler

  Spiritual, Religious, Spring

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

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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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• 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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• Do I address issues of the spirit, of the soul, in my work? Yes, definitely. As for being a Catholic poet, I was born in, and into, Catholicism - Eastern Rite Maronite and Melkite Catholicism. Not being Catholic has never been a choice for me - it's in my family, my ancestry, going back centuries. Catholicism, for me, is always here.

  Lawrence Joseph

  Choices, Catholic, Soul

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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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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• That rule must be absolutely observed which states that, except for the most serious reasons and with the Apostolic See, no innovations are to be introduced into the holy rites of the liturgy.

  Pope Gregory XVI

  Innovation, Serious, Reason

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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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• The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  God, Forgiveness, Religious

  FULTON J. SHEEN (1955). “WAY TO HAPPY LIVING”

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• Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the best and old norm.

  Pope Clement VIII

  Church, Sacred, Solicitude

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• I was nurtured in the church; I went to a Catholic school; I was an altar boy; I went to a Catholic university; I was steeped in the moral tradition of the Catholic Church. My Catholicism plays a very strong role. But I thought President John F.Kennedy answered rather well when he said that ultimately my conduct as a public official does not come ex cathedra from Rome; it comes from my conscience.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Strong, School, Boys

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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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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• I'm an ex-Catholic priest. I have such a complex relationship to Catholicism. On the one hand, if I called myself a Catholic it would have to be a very unorthodox one, as I just don't believe all of the teachings of the Church. But on the other hand, I'm an educated man because the Catholic Church educated me. It gave me something that is really important to me. So I always think about my faith. I always have it, and sometimes I can't talk about it, and sometimes I can. I am like an adolescent in that way. Teens are asking questions: who is God and what does it mean to have faith?

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Believe, Teaching, Mean

  Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. March 16, 2017.

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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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• The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of communism, nor even the threat of rationalism and the monolithic consensus which surrounds us. All these are dangerous but not the primary threat. The real problem is this: the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, individually corporately, tending to do the Lord’s work in the power of the flesh rather than of the Spirit. The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Jesus, Real, People

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• If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, People, Mind

  Adolf Hitler “Mein Kampf (English version): My Struggle Full English version”, Adolf Hitler

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• Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.

  Tom Clancy

  Hate, People, Catholic

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• Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children.

  Adolf Hitler

  Song, Religious, Children

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

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• I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties. Only the Christian- Social movement, especially in Lueger's time achieved a certain virtuosity on this instrument, to which it owed many of its success.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Art

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

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• Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.

  Alexander Herzen

  Men, Ideas, Chivalry

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• I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.

  Kate Atkinson

  Thinking, Catholic, Would Be

  "Emotionally weird? Moi?". Interview with Kim Bunce, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2000.

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• I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me almost a belated act of grace to be allowed to stand as a witness in the divine court of the eternal judge and proclaim the sincerity of this conviction.

  Adolf Hitler

  Judging, Grace, Atheism

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Chapter 5 - "The World War", 1925.

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• Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Heart, Heaven

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

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• It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad masses of its adherents.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Party

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

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• I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.

  Pope Pius IX

  Forty, Ifs

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