Top 1200 Roman Catholic Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on November 16, 2024.
Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.
Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?
It's insane how many Roman coins are being found! It's as if all Romans had holes in their pockets. They sowed coins wherever they went. Even in the fields. Maybe to grow money . . .
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart.
"Religions" of the Roman world varied. Most of it was ritual practices. There were periodic occasions when cities honored their guardian deities with sacrifices and ceremonies, to ensure that they stayed happy and kept the city safe.
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.
The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.
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 grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!
I had gone to a Catholic prep school where everyone was rich and having kids by the time they were 30.
I think anarchy is natural to the Catholic. The Church is pretty anarchistic, you know. Who pays attention to the Pope or the Cardinals?
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.
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.
When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the levers of power: it was won when the victims knelt down in the Colosseum and prayed in the name of Jesus for the Emperor.
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
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.
When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.
Since by the ordination of God I both am called and am Emperor of the Romans, in nothing but name shall I appear to be ruler if the control of the Roman city be wrested from my hands.
I write in Times New Roman, 12 point, and arrange the margins so that the screen looks like a page from a book. This spurs me on to make the writing as perfect as I can make it.
This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee from the physical world and towards the world of ideas.
Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.
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.
Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love; it is like giving life.
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
In my mind, there is no reason why Stoicism shouldn't become as popular as Buddhism, especially in the Western world, where the dominant culture, Christianity, itself absorbed a large number of elements from Greco-Roman Stoicism.
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.
In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.
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 remember, as a young Catholic girl in high school, seeing 'The Exorcist,' and it scared the wits out of me.
I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.
There, like the wind through woods in riot,
Through him the gale of life blew high;
The tree of man was never quiet:
Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.
I like churches and Catholic symbolism, and although the art at the Vatican is overwhelming to see, I appreciated it even as an atheist.
The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.
I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.
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'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.
Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.
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.
The strange thing about Roman soldiers in the comics was the amount of trouble they took over their armor and their helmets, and then, after all that, they left their legs bare. It didn't make any sense at all. Weatherwise or otherwise.
Everything is spectacle. Everything is entertainment, whether it's shame, invasion of privacy, abuse, no matter what it is it's become almost a sporting event. It's like the new Roman Coliseum in a way.
Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion, balance - is in Egypt.
I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .
I'd grown up very Catholic, parochial school, and Warlock was a way of working a lot of things out.
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.
The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.
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.
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 was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.
In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.
I was a careless Protestant, my wife was a good Catholic, and we had six kids in seven years and I'd endorse that to everyone.
We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.
St. Patrick's Day is a holy day for Roman Catholics in Ireland to pray and a day for drunk people to vomit with their pants down in New Jersey.
I went to a Catholic school, so of course we had to wear uniforms. My only form of expression was in shoes and the style of my hair.
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.
I come from a Catholic Republican military family in Georgia - the antithesis of Sean's hippie-artist-peacenik background.
