Top 1200 Catholic Saint Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on October 17, 2024.
I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone.
When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.
Neither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church.
You made this?' Finn looks at me. 'No, Saint Anthony brought it to me in the night. He was very put out I didn't give it to you right then.
To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.
I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
The time has now come for every Latter-day Saint ... to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing in full. That is the word of the Lord to you.
The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.
Snowden is the thoughtful, courageous saint of liberal reform. And Julian Assange is a sort of radical, feral prophet who has been prowling this wilderness since he was 16 years old.
Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.
Today Saint Paul has told us that in Christ we have become God’s adopted children, brothers and sisters in Christ. This is who we are. This is our identity.
My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.
One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on these shores by the Puritan John Winthrop, via the Gospel according to Saint Matthew.
I remember, as a young Catholic girl in high school, seeing 'The Exorcist,' and it scared the wits out of me.
I love to draw and paint. I did all the illustrations in my books, so I always have my watercolours with me. I was creative as a child and studied art at Central Saint Martins before getting into food.
You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!
The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, "No. There was a fire in the room."
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!
I was raised in the Catholic Church, and for me, the thought in the Bible and Christianity, and the spirit within that, is one of the guiding principles in my life.
I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.
Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.
I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.
My parents were extremely liberal. They didn't believe in being Catholic or Protestant, and that was a big deal at the time.
The Catholic Church is wealthier than Coca-Cola, but takes from some of the poorest people in the world.
I got a GED based on Catholic school seventh-grade education, really. I didn't make it that far.
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
My teacher, Josef Gingold, a student of the French school, always loved the music of Saint-Saens and Henri Vieuxtemps and all the French repertoire.
Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.
For me growing up, I had a Christian upbringing, and I just noticed this Catholic influence in school.
I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
Daily living by faith on Christ is what makes the difference between the sickly and the healthy Christian, between the defeated and the victorious saint.
Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not be true to the best interests and general welfare of his country.
On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.
The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
I just pray. And 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.
It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.
I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.
Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.
I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that I've just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.
You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.
I got a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Catholic University of America in D.C. and started working as an understudy at the Arena.
I think anarchy is natural to the Catholic. The Church is pretty anarchistic, you know. Who pays attention to the Pope or the Cardinals?
I'm a spiritual person. I'm not very religious. I was raised Catholic, but I am influenced a lot by Buddhism and Hinduism.
I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.
The idea of being a practicing Catholic, it's - for me, it's like - I need a lot of practice, you know what I mean?
It is clearly absurd that it should be possible for a woman to qualify as a saint with direct access to the Almighty, while she may not qualify as a curate.
Small yet strong in the love of God, like Saint Francis of Assisi, all of us, as Christians, are called to watch over
and protect the fragile world in which we live, and all its peoples.
I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.
I needed something deeper than the Catholic faith, and Buddha helps me control myself.
The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.
The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.
The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return.
The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki.
Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart.
I describe myself as a "spiritual sampler," raised Catholic, been Baptist, Methodist, and a Unity member.
What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.
I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
I knew him, but never felt that I got really close to Saint Laurent. But who really did? Betty Catroux, maybe.
For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.
