Top 1200 Roman Catholic Church Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

I don't want to interpret the pope's words, especially as I am one of those horrible people who fell away from the Roman church after Martin Luther.

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

I think the strength of the Catholic church is that when it does finally identify a problem, it works to resolve it.

My mom is very religious - Catholic - and from a young age they brought me to the church.

I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt of lightning if I didn't.

The 'Church' is ... catholic because her communion embraces the whole human race.

I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.

Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.

I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

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.

I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

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.

In fact, there is only one true and holy religion, founded and instituted by Christ Our Lord. Mother and Nurse of the virtues, Destroyer of vice, Liberator of souls, Guide to true happiness, she is called Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman.

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.

I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

The Catholic Church is wealthier than Coca-Cola, but takes from some of the poorest people in the world.

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.

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing His apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God's plan for His Church.

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty.

My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.

I think there's a ton of things about being Catholic that are hard. Going to Church every week is tough. I'd like to go to church, like, every couple of months. Going to confession is hard. Confessing my sins out loud is a very difficult thing.

The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.

[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.

The Celtic Church as we know it, till gradually brought under Roman discipline, was purely monastic. The monasteries were the centres whence the ministry of souls was exercised.

I was born Roman, and I'll die Roman. I'll never leave this team or my city.

The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a nutshell.

I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a really powerful religion and a really strong set of beliefs. They permeate my work in many ways.

The form of religion was always a trivial matter to me. ... The pageantry of the Roman Church that first mothered and nurtured me touches me to this day. I love the Protestant prayers of the English Church. And I love the stern and knotty argument, the sermon with heads and sequences, of the New England Congregationalist. For this catholicity Catholics have upbraided me, churchmen rebuked me, and dissenters denied that I had any religion at all.

My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education.

When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

If there was acceptance of the mentally ill in the Catholic Church, the entire Curia would resign!

In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.

I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years, from eleven to fourteen, and trained to be a Catholic priest. So I was very steeped in all that.

Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart.

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.

The Catholic Church played an integral role in supporting the opening between the U.S. and Cuban governments.

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 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.

Neither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church.

People who are stuck in a Catholic church, that's OK for them because that's what they need right now.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.

A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god.

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.

Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.