Top 1200 Catholic Saint Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on October 17, 2024.
The reason I say I'm a horrible person is I don't want myself to be presented as somebody who's a great Catholic.
Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.
A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.
Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me.
If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.
The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.
I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.
To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.
My Catholic faith is the foundation of my worldview, and my judicial duty is governed, from beginning to end, by the law.
For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty.
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
People who are stuck in a Catholic church, that's OK for them because that's what they need right now.
I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.
I myself am not religious, but yes, I certainly grew up in a very Catholic environment.
I #? forgive not because I became a saint, but because I'm tired of hating.
I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion when I was about 6 or 7.
My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass.
I like the yin-yang of a cop's life, where he's part fascist and part saint. That's where the good dramas are.
I would describe myself as a practising Catholic. This is only my opinion; others may disagree.
The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
[To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
Everything is not on a plate for you at Saint Martins - it's about personality, about working out how to do it.
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together.
You started like a saint and now you've finished like a thief
Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.
My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.
You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.
My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick's Day, 1978.
I shall lie folded like a saint,
Lapped in a scented linen sheet,
On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint,
Narrow and cold and neat.
I was brought up very Catholic, and the character of Tommy Gnosis got his name from there.
I think the strength of the Catholic church is that when it does finally identify a problem, it works to resolve it.
I am a very spiritual person: I could say a Catholic with a strong underpinning of Zen.
The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.
There were many reasons we broke up. There was a religious difference: I'm a Catholic, and she's the devil.
The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.
We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.
There has been this belief among the Catholic community - and this - I'm no expert, this is my opinion - that cafeteria Catholics are wrong.
No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.
Yves Saint Laurent didn't have friends. He loved nobody. He was intimate with nobody.
I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.
The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.
The Catholic Church played an integral role in supporting the opening between the U.S. and Cuban governments.
As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.
A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.
[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'
I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.
I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.
The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.
I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.
Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.
Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped
My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.
No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.
I always have been excited by taboo things, especially growing up, going to Catholic school.
