David Novak Quotes

I first came to Jewish-Catholic relations in 1963, while studying for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

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• I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Catholic

• Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Writing
  • Being
  • Try

• I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Different

• I was raised Catholic.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Catholic
  • I Was Raised

• If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Different
  • School
  • You

• I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Never
  • Devil
  • Catholic

• It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And in 'I'd Do Anything,' I've had so much support from folks back home, no matter what side they're on.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Home
  • Support
  • See

• I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Catholic
  • Beatnik

• My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Family
  • Catholic
  • Very

• If you've got five cameras, you're making sure that you're in the right position for each one of the cameras.

  

  Jacinda Barrett
  • You
  • Right
  • Sure

• I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Church
  • Feelings

• My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Mother
  • Catholic
  • Very

• 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.

  

  Camille Guaty
  • School
  • Style
  • Hair

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Church
  • Evil
  • Catholic

• Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • People
  • Country
  • Church

• When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Time
  • Question
  • Church

• I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Up
  • Art
  • Power

• I was born in Washington, D.C., where my father was working for the Federal Trade Commission, and my mom was editor for the National Council of Catholic Women, but my parents were simply awaiting my birth before moving back to their roots in Rhode Island to raise their family.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Women
  • Family
  • Father

• It's amazing how much people talk about colonics here. That's not a thing anywhere else in the country. But I totally did a juice cleanse, I did a colonic - I'm getting into L.A. living!

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • People
  • Country
  • Amazing

• But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • God
  • Art
  • Reality

• There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.

  

  Arthur Erickson

• I first came to Jewish-Catholic relations in 1963, while studying for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

  

  David Novak
  • Catholic