Catholic Quotes

• In Bolivia there are Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist churches, and so on. In Bolivia there are indigenous religious beliefs like the rite of Pachamama Mother Earth, which shows us that Mother Earth is our life, we are born out of the Earth we live on the Earth and return to the Earth.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Church

• My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • She
  • Hope

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

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Mother
  • Catholic
  • Very

• I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• My philosophy is if you're happy being a born - again Christian, if you're happy be­ing a Roman Catholic, if you're happy being a Jew or Moslem ... great!! I'm happy being Ozzy.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Christian
  • Philosophy
  • Jew

• 'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common with other 'Catholic' writers.

  

  Mary Gordon
  • Law
  • Perspective
  • Catholic

• The moral systems of religion, I think, are superimportant. We've raised our kids in a religious way; they've gone to the Catholic church that Melinda goes to and I participate in. I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.

  

  Bill Gates
  • World
  • Kids
  • Church

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

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Law

• 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

• I'd like to stand up in those classes and announce to the world that I'm too busy to be Irish or Catholic or anything else, that I'm working day and night to make a living, trying to read books for my courses and falling asleep in the library ....

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Like
  • Point
  • Take

• Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.

  

  Cheech Marin
  • School
  • Catholic

• I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Up
  • Family
  • Movie

• The guy who kind of broke the story in 'Spotlight' was a priest, the guy who had sort of done all the research. One of the things he said when one of the 'Spotlight' reporters asked him how he could still remain a Catholic, he said that, 'My faith is in the eternal, and the church is an organization.'

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Done
  • Guy
  • Faith

• I feel like if I am physically and emotionally able to be at the theater, I will be there. I don't like not being there - I don't like playing hooky. I am just one of those people who feels really, really guilty if I am not there - maybe it's part of being Catholic.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • People
  • Guilty
  • Theater

• I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Christian

• I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • People
  • World
  • American

• 'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Important
  • Me
  • Myself

• I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.

  

  Paul Kantner
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Church

• Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Time
  • Church
  • Catholic

• I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • Up
  • Practice
  • Catholic

• To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly in five years or longer, to become a saint, a second miracle.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Church
  • Miracle
  • Saint

• 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.

  

  Gene Cernan
  • Family
  • She
  • Strong

• Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Bombs
  • Homes
  • Petrol

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