Top 1200 Catholic Guilt Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.

There is no such thing as collective guilt.

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

Guilt is the mafia of the mind.

I do not believe in collective guilt.

The religious conflicts of the Reformation era were never simply and only about religion, because religion during this era as in the Middle Ages that preceded it, informed and was meant to inform every domain of life. Violence involving religion and touching other areas of life took many forms: from the Protestant destruction of Catholic religious art and objects in iconoclasm, to Catholic executions of Protestants who refused to renounce their views, to major destructive conflicts such as the French Wars of Religion and the Thirty Years' War.

My own experience of growing up as a Roman Catholic in Scotland has led me to fear independence in Scotland. The possibility of Scotland being a kind of Stormont is a real one. I wrote a book recently about Neil Lennon's year of living dangerously and in the course of it I had to revisit some of my own experiences. Of course, most Scottish people are not swivel-eyed, loyalist sectarians but there are a large number of them. A large six-figure number, and if I were living in Scotland as a Roman Catholic I would be worried about that.

I am a Catholic.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

Guilt by association is part of campaigning.

I wasn't a cradle Catholic, but a convert.

The Most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, also Jews, heretics, and schismatics can ever be partakers of eternal life, but that they are to go into the eternal fire 'which was prepared for the devil and his angels' (Mt. 25:41) unless before death they are joined with Her... No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ can be saved unless they abide within the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.

Well, I am Catholic.

Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.

He that knows no guilt can know no fear.

I carry lots of guilt.

I didn't know you were Catholic.

I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.

Guilt soon learns to lie.

I was raised Catholic.

I'm not religious. I'm a fallen Catholic.

Guilt was imputed and corruption was conveyed

What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable, we may not inquire because to inquire is to make the horrors an object of discussion, even if the horrors themselves are not questioned, instead of accepting them as something in the face of which we can only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt. Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt? To what purpose?

As a Catholic, you can have two views on capital punishment. You can think, let Caesar do what Caesar needs to do, and the law says you can impose capital punishment, so you impose it. You can [also] be a Catholic who says we can't kill, we can't kill babies and we can't kill adults. If you let a decision be driven by your personal views, then you are not doing what a judge needs to do, which is enforce the laws of the society that you are in. But you can control your own behavior, and that is the choice that the church and God gives us - what kind of people are we going to be.

There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's fine, that's wonderful. What I am against is labelling. Nobody ever labels a child a cricketer because his father is a cricketer, but they do label a child a Catholic because his parents are Catholic. I think it's more or less unique. Nobody ever labels a child a socialist or a conservative or a liberal because that's what their parents are.

The concept of 'purgatory' is in Catholic Church dogma, and most black people are not Catholic - mostly their Christian realities focus on heaven or hell. Purgatory is for the expiation of sin, the fact that you are there, and not in hell, means you'll eventually work your way to heaven. The experience of this play, 'Small oak tree', and its psychological architecture, relies on its knowledge of that. Many black people believe that this life, within itself, is a way to work out whatever obligations we have, in order to get to a better place.

I am post-Catholic.

But I don't believe in guilt by association.

The guilt of newborns is immense.

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

Guilt was its own prison.

Guilt's a terrible thing.

Well, anyway, I'm not a Catholic.

Everybody is laden with guilt.

Guilt is the thief of life.

Guilt is the teacher, love is the lesson.

I'm Catholic, I'm conditioned to confess.

I was born and raised Catholic.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

Successful guilt is the bane of society

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics, and very probably at some time, Jews. I have consistently tried while President to act in relation to my fellow Americans of Catholic faith as I hope that any future President who happens to be Catholic will act towards his fellow Americans of Protestant faith. Had I followed any other course I should have felt that I was unfit to represent the American people.

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote - where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference - and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

I'm a Catholic.

You cannot live with guilt.

I'm a good Catholic boy.

There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.

I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.

Let go of self-condemnation and guilt!

I'm from an Irish Catholic family.

INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

I'm not actually sure if guilt is an emotion.

One last important influence I'll mention is Flannery O'Connor. In high school I shoplifted her Complete Stories. Having read "Good Country People" for class, I really just felt a home in her work. I had little guilt about the theft at the time. I sucked in my stomach and shoved the book into my pants. It's very big. I can still feel how it cut into my body in the most exciting way. Clearly, I don't feel guilt-free about this crime anymore - I wouldn't be mentioning here, looking for some absolution if I did.

I was honestly a Catholic.

Do not have regrets. Guilt is a wasted emotion.

Guilt is always jealous

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.