Top 198 Catholicism Quotes & Sayings

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

I was a convert to Catholicism, and converts are much more devout.

But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any concept of accountability and giving them some sort of false confidence. The different is that while Catholicism has an abundance of intellectual underpinnings to support its arguments, anti-Catholicism and atheist have few if any.

We have to go on until Islam is made as ho-hum as Catholicism.

Catholicism is the most philosophical branch of Christianity.

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

I've begun to recognize myself as a Catholic writer because my whole notion of the image, of symbol, of art and what it can do, has been conditioned by my immersion in Catholic culture, ritual, and art since my earliest days. Catholicism seeped into me through every pore. Catholicism is about seeping and pores!

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

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.

We're used to institutional-maintenance Catholicism, in which the institution ticks along by its own inertia and people are "born" into the Church. Francis knows that is over and done with: "Kept" Catholicism, whether "kept" by legal establishment or by cultural habit, has no future.

It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.

I can't bear Catholicism.

If you want to play a complex, turmoiled character, then give him a dose of Catholicism.

I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.

Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

Atheism in legislation, indifference in matters of religion, and the pernicious maxims which go under the name of Liberal Catholicism are the true causes of the destruction of states; they have been the ruin of France. Believe me, the evil I denounce is more terrible than the Revolution, more terrible even than The Commune. I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism, and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.

I'd given up Catholicism in my teens but something of it stays with me. I try to create the perfect sentence - that's as close to godliness as I can get.

Catholicism is so steeped in imagery. It's one of the many reasons Catholicism has given birth to so many great filmmakers compared to the Protestant tradition - even in America, where we're primarily Protestant.

Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists.

Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.

Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.

I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism.

The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of communism, nor even the threat of rationalism and the monolithic consensus which surrounds us. All these are dangerous but not the primary threat. The real problem is this: the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, individually corporately, tending to do the Lord’s work in the power of the flesh rather than of the Spirit. The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.

When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me to the Catholic church is that in Catholicism, prayer suffuses all of one's life by virtue of the sacraments. Prayer is not something which occurs just on Sunday, it doesn't occur only at particular moments of intensity or by particular conventions, one's whole life is given up to prayer in many, many modes. And so everything to do with the faith is trying to put you in relationship with God and trying to make that relationship grow deeper and more mature.

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.

Catholicism isn't a religion, it's a nationality.

The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right.

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan.

In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.

I converted to Catholicism at age 35, after being raised as a Congregationalist in a New England Yankee family.

I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism.

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.).

Do I address issues of the spirit, of the soul, in my work? Yes, definitely. As for being a Catholic poet, I was born in, and into, Catholicism - Eastern Rite Maronite and Melkite Catholicism. Not being Catholic has never been a choice for me - it's in my family, my ancestry, going back centuries. Catholicism, for me, is always here.

The only future is intentional Catholicism, evangelical Catholicism.

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

Catholicism has changed tremendously in recent years. Now when Communion is served there is also a salad bar.

I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes. Catholicism is accused of being too much like all the other religions; Protestantism of being insufficiently like a religion at all. Hence Plato, with his transcendent Forms, is the doctor of Protestants; Aristotle, with his immanent Forms, the doctor of Catholics.

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

Most people spend their life trying to get away from Catholicism. Amazingly, I chose it.

My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism.

In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection.

Now the ordinary Protestant, Jew or Secularist has a stereotype about Catholicism. It consists of Spanish Catholicism, Latin-American Catholicism and, let us say, a Catholicism of O'Connor's "Great Hurrah." Now there are types of Catholicism like that but this doesn't - this doesn't do justice to the genuine relation that Catholicism has had to Democratic Society.

Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.