Top 1200 Irish Catholic Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.
There has been this belief among the Catholic community - and this - I'm no expert, this is my opinion - that cafeteria Catholics are wrong.
I've got the fighting Irish, and Puerto Ricans are some of the best fighters in the world. I'm proud of who I am, but it doesn't define me as a person.
I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.
For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty.
Hats are the epitome of Englishness, and a royal wedding is the penultimate moment for a hat designer. I'm Irish, but I am a royalist and I believe in fantasy.
The Catholic Church played an integral role in supporting the opening between the U.S. and Cuban governments.
I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.
I was brought up very Catholic, and the character of Tommy Gnosis got his name from there.
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.
Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me.
the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.
I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there.
Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry.
I am a very spiritual person: I could say a Catholic with a strong underpinning of Zen.
I would not describe myself as the best Catholic - I'm a bit of a cherry-picker. I like the community of it.
Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.
To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for
Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish in your blood lines.
The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.
But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.
The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
Concurring hands divide
flax for damask
that when bleached by Irish weather
has the silvered chamois-leather
water-tightness of a
skin.
Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.
The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
There were many reasons we broke up. There was a religious difference: I'm a Catholic, and she's the devil.
As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.
There's still a great hesitancy in the Irish make up about expressing feelings... it'd be nice to say I miss you, I love you, come home.
I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?
My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
I always have been excited by taboo things, especially growing up, going to Catholic school.
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.
[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'
World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives.
The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.
My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.
I would describe myself as a practising Catholic. This is only my opinion; others may disagree.
I think the strength of the Catholic church is that when it does finally identify a problem, it works to resolve it.
I felt that the IRA, in the context of Irish history, and Sinn Fein were a legitimate force that had to be recognized, and you wouldn't have peace without them.
Our common membership of the E.U. provided an important external context to the Irish and U.K. governments working together for peace. It should not be discounted lightly.
I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.
I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
London's been really good to me - England as a whole - but the Scots and the Irish especially are very appreciative because that's kind of where it all came from.
I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune.
I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.
I go to the Catholic Church. God is an important part of my life. If he was not, I don't think I could have survived.
You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together.
I myself am not religious, but yes, I certainly grew up in a very Catholic environment.
We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.
I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.
I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.
People who are stuck in a Catholic church, that's OK for them because that's what they need right now.
My Catholic faith is the foundation of my worldview, and my judicial duty is governed, from beginning to end, by the law.
There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.
He [Bill Clinton] likes to hearken back to his kind of Irish roots, so I think he'd love to be called First Laddy.
"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.
The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass.
I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.
