Catholicism Quotes - Page 5

• ‎May the Heart of Jesus be the goal of all your aspirations.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Jesus, Heart, Goal

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• I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism, or any other ism, when a religioin is created on the subtle premise that God withholds his love and you must submit to the system to earn that love, I consider it the worst of corruptions... For centuries, the church has been telling us that if we want God to love us, we need to follow the rules. It's been far more important to focus on the sin problem than the love problem.

  Erwin McManus

  Buddhism, Focus, Islam

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• I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

  Charles Dickens

  Atheist, Believe, Mean

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• The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks.

  Al Goldstein

  Thinking, Christ, Reason

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• Peace is built on the foundation of justice.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Justice, Foundation, Built

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• A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

  St. Jerome

  Heart, Idols, Vices

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• When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and said, "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?" And he said he didn't think so. I remember that felt like a slap in the face, because if my parents questioned Adam and Eve, then they potentially questioned everything within Catholicism. Eventually that idea led to my feeling liberated, but at that time it was very scary.

  Alanis Morissette

  Dad, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Prayer, Silence, Blessed Sacrament

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2014). “Letters of St. Therese of LIsieux, Volume II: General Correspondence 1890-1897”, p.56, ICS Publications

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• Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Judging, Catholic, Church

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• Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.

  Matthew Kelly

  Rules And Regulations, Way, Helping

  Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.148, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• Justice comes before charity.

  Pope John XXIII

  Justice, Charity

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• What the Vatican did will be indelibly and eternally engraved in our hearts. Priests and even high prelates did things that will forever be an honor to Catholicism.

  Israel Zolli

  Heart, Forever, Honor

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• In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Religion, Proportion, Protestantism

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• Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed

  Oliver Cromwell

  Believe, Political, Catholic

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• The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Catholic, Reason, Explaining

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• When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

  C. S. Lewis

  Decay, Holy Places, Amulets

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Allegory of Love”, p.403, Cambridge University Press

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• In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Unique, Church, Easy

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• Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.

  A.C. Grayling

  Winning, Two, People

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• Isn't the essential pillar of Catholicism papal infallibility? Well, then how can the church ever change its mind about anything unless God gets confused one day? Not all religions claim the direct authority of God speaking to their leader. You know, I'm an atheist, but I'm a Puritan atheist.

  Dave Foley

  Atheist, Confused, Leader

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• I didn't have a clue. I grew up Protestant in Connecticut at the Saugatuck Congregational Church. We didn't talk about the devil. That's Catholicism. And so, that was my safety net. And I always say, it's probably a good thing they didn't hire a Catholic child, who may have heard about the devil, the things that were in the closet. And no one wanted to discuss them.

  Linda Blair

  Children, Safety, Catholic

  "Interview with The Exorcist Linda Blair". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.

  Jeff Ament

  College, Trying, Figures

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• Catholicism is the most philosophical branch of Christianity.

  Tim Crane

  Philosophical, Branches, Christianity

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious fanaticisms, each cancelling the other out.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Religious, Two, Said

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• To me, the Craft is what Christianity was 2,000 years ago. It was a religion that was not corrupted. I personally think Jesus was a Crafter. We believe in all the things that he spoke of. The early Christians believed in reincarnation, and that was later removed from the belief system. Early Christians had a female Divinity, and that was taken out of their belief system, or as with Catholicism, replaced with Mary. Look at how incredible the growth in devotion of Mary is. It's amazing. The desire for a female Divinity is not just Wiccan. It speaks of a global need.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  "The Truth about Witchcraft with Silver RavenWolf". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. November 1, 1997.

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• You are American, whether you profess Judaism, Catholicism, Protestantism, whether you adhere to Islam, or whether you believe in nothing at all. And you're as American as anybody else, whatever your religious beliefs. But try not to get caught up in media stereotypes of your neighbors and of your country. Think about people that you know and how they treat you. As you get to know someone, it matters not what religious background they have, or what their nationality is, or where they came from. And I think that's how Americans really do relate to each other on a personal level.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Religious, Believe

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