Roman Catholic Quotes

• It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Catholic, Saint, Hard

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• Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Spiritual, Prayer

  "Is It Okay to Pray for Material Things?" by Rick Hamlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.

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• Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

  Lance Morrow

  Catholic, Mind, Religion

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• During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: “Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church?” The cardinal, the anecdote goes, responded ruefully: “Your majesty, we, the Catholic clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last 1,800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.”

  Ross Douthat

  Years, Catholic, Church

  "A Time for Contrition". www.nytimes.com. March 28, 2010.

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• I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

  Bradley Cooper

  Italian, Catholic, Irish Family

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• Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing. Some reduce to a meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the true Church in order to gain eternal salvation. Others finally belittle the reasonable character of the credibility of Christian Faith. These and like errors, it is clear, have crept in among certain of our sons who are deceived by imprudent zeal for souls or by false science.

  Pope Pius XII

  Christian, Character, Son

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• The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Catholic, Church

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• By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside which we believe that no one is saved.

  Pope Innocent III

  Believe, Heart, Apostolic Church

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• I'm a Roman Catholic! A devout Roman Catholic.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Catholic

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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• I was steeped in the understanding that if 'something is Roman [Catholic], it must be wrong.

  Scott Hahn

  Catholic, Understanding, Ifs

  Scott Hahn, Kimberly Hahn (1993). “Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism”, p.67, Ignatius Press

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• I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.

  George Washington

  Religious, Regret, Spring

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• I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.

  Martin Scorsese

  New York, Italian, America

  "Martin Scorsese Defends 'The Wolf of Wall Street': 'The Devil Comes With a Smile' (Q&A)". Interview with Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 31, 2013.

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• The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was closely identified with the Franco and Salazar dictatorships in Spain and Portugal. . . . More recently, . . . the Serbian Orthodox Church has come to be identified with the policies of Serbia (Yugoslavia).

  Edd Doerr

  Government, Yugoslavia, White

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• Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Hate, Elderly, People

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• Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons which he suggests for making the recommended bet on his particular faith are reasons in the sense of motives rather than reasons in the sense of grounds. Conceding, if only for the sake of the present argument, that we can have no knowledge here, Pascal tries to justify as prudent a policy of systematic self-persuasion, rather than to provide grounds for thinking that the beliefs recommended are actually true.

  Antony Flew

  Thinking, Self, Atheism

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• Protestant churches everywhere are gravitating toward union with the Roman Catholic Church. These religious movements are speeding the fulfillment of the prophecies of the resurrected Roman Empire. For 30 years I have been proclaiming this tremendous event over the air and in print.

  Herbert W. Armstrong

  Religious, Air, Years

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• Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.

  Bob Dylan

  Beautiful, Art, Moving

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• The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Catholic, Society, Church

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• Wee do freely profess that our Lord the King hath no more power over their Roman Catholics' coonsciences than over ours, and that is none at all ... let people be heretikes, Turks, Jews, or whatsoever, it apperteynes not to the earthly power to punish them in the least measure.

  Thomas Helwys

  Kings, People, Catholic

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• In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism, and to preserve the spiritual and temporal supremacy which the popes [had] 'usurped' during the Middle Ages, Rome now 'sold' the [Roman Catholic] Church to the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Jesuits]; in essence the popes surrendered themselves into their hands.

  John Daniel

  Spiritual, Jesus, Agreement

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• Roman Catholics utter their Papal edicts, Protestants quote their Bible, Fundamentalists declare their orthodox theological dogmas, and we are all expected to renounce private reflection and peacefully acquiesce to these pronouncements. And the result is that the dignity of the person is violated by such oppressive, intelligence-smothering forms of communication.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Communication, Reflection, Catholic

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• With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.

  Steve Garvey

  Catholic, Principles, Good Times

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• Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet.

  Irene Thomas

  Catholic, Pills, May

  In 'Guardian' 28 December 1990, p. 27

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• When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Mother, Buddhist, Catholic

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• Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.

  Norman Geisler

  Errors, Catholic, Church

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