Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Very less to say, I can make one Catholic or Protestant.

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• 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'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 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

• 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

• The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Church
  • Weird
  • Catholic

• I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the 'sporty good girl.'

  

  Taylor Cole
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • History
  • Catholic

• When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Good
  • Father
  • Night

• I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Pretty
  • Science
  • Catholic

• It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it.

  

  Christopher Meloni
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• I think the idea that life ends when we physically die is as painful as the idea in Cromwell's time that there's some awful purgatory, and you have to give money to the Catholic church to get your loved ones out. I certainly have experienced a lot of evidence that there's a consciousness that isn't physical.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• The scientific-rational mindset is as much a cosmology as the Catholic mindset was in the Middle Ages; scientists are so proud of their mindset and convinced that it's the only reality. I find that worrying.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Reality
  • Proud
  • Catholic

• I grew up in a French-dominated Catholic part of the country. I was an altar boy. I went to Catholic school. I have a cousin who is a priest - it's part of my DNA. It's kind of hard to separate me from the church, to try to say where one starts and the other stops.

  

  James Carville
  • Up
  • Country
  • School

• The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Action
  • Catholic

• I am not a theologian or a historian, and I feel no call to become a defender of the faith, so in my case, the search for what remains valuable focuses on language itself: Catholic prayer, ritual, the naming of things.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Faith
  • Prayer
  • Search

• I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Good
  • God
  • Catholic

• I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him.

  

  Christopher Buckley

• I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

  

  Aleksandar Hemon
  • Game
  • Path
  • Forgiveness

• There's always new work to do. Adjusting to the rapid pace of technological change creates real challenges, seen most clearly in our polarized labor market and the threat that it poses to economic mobility. Rising to this challenge is not automatic. It's not costless. It's not easy. But it is feasible.

  

  David Autor
  • Work
  • Real
  • Challenge

• Very less to say, I can make one Catholic or Protestant.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Catholic
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