Quotes About Catholicism

I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.

I got a GED based on Catholic school seventh-grade education, really. I didn't make it that far.

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

Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.

Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see the - any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.

I have a lot of belief in myself and I am also someone who has a lot of faith in God. I get a lot of strength from my Catholicism.

To think that a Catholic bishop must answer to a civil authority over matters of faith is abominable. It is abhorrent to me, to other Catholics, and to every member of every faith community.

I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I think, as I did when I wrote The God Delusion, that the Roman Catholic Church is a disgusting institution, the second most evil religion in the world.

Well, my family has been Catholic for generations, so doesn't that make me Catholic?' 'That's lazy, sloppy abuse of language. My family has been farming for generations but that doesn't define me as a farmer.

even the presidents of Harvard and Yale saw the War of Independence as part of God's design for the overthrow of Catholicism.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

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.

Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family.

The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.

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

The problem is that one man's superstition is another man's religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being rife with superstition, ... while atheists and agnostics would see bien-pensant Protestants as worshiping an equally absurd form of the supernatural.

As Marx amusingly put it elsewhere, in boom economies everybody acts like a Protestant—they act on pure faith. When the crash comes, though, everyone dives for cover in the "Catholicism" of the monetary base, real gold.

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.

The Rosary is a priceless treasure inspired by God.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God.

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

I am catholic. And I don't like to see catholicism being brought into disrepute by those in charge who don't seem to believe in God at all... they act like they don't think God is watching.

I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.