Catholic Quotes

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
John F. Kennedy

President, Happens, Party

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
Lenny Bruce

School, Children, Jesus

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
H. L. Mencken

Woman, She, Chemistry

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.
Will Smith

Church, Crush, Muslim

I am a Catholic.
Paulo Coelho

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
George Orwell

Cannot, Honest, Both

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
George Orwell

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.
Robert H. Schuller

Change, Church, Roman

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Thomas Aquinas

Faith, Truth, Learning

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.
Pope John XXIII

Work, Friendly, Her

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'
Richard Dawkins

Children, Young, Islamic

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
David Bowie

Powerful, Passion, May

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.
Paul Ryan

Religion, Happy, Guns

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
Charles Spurgeon

Rather, Heaven, Turn

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

Religion, Mother, Father

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
Simone Weil

Thought, Christian, Cannot

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
Isabel Allende

Age, Family, End

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.
Christopher Hitchens

Afraid, Church, Deal

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
Umberto Eco

Success, Good, Successful

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.
Anne Lamott

Poor, Sweet, Loved

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.
John Waters

God, Sex, Dirty

Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends.
Liam Neeson

Friends, Proud, Yes

I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
Peter Ustinov

Bad, Children, Four

Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration?
Newt Gingrich

Find, Against, Church

If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.
Anna Quindlen

Work, Living, Anyone

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.
Giles Gilbert Scott

Good, Everything, Church

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.
Billy Corgan

Baptized, Brought, Roman

I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?
Liam Neeson

Ourselves, Ask, Planet

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.
Liam Neeson

Life, Acting, Prayer

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.
Madeleine Albright

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