Catholic Quotes - Page 14

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

Hannah Storm in a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She's got on red go-go boots and a catholic school plaid skirt ... way too short for somebody in her 40s or maybe early 50s by now...She's got on her typically very, very tight shirt. She looks like she has sausage casing wrapping around her upper body ... I know she's very good, and I'm not supposed to be critical of ESPN people, so I won't ... but Hannah Storm ... come on now! Stop! What are you doing? ... She's what I would call a Holden Caulfield fantasy at this point.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.

When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.

I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ.

We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do.

As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.

I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.

Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit.

Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.

Portugal was born in the shadow of the Catholic Church and religion, from the beginning it was the formative element of the soul of the nation and the dominant trait of character of the Portuguese people.

Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.

The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.

For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.

The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion with the Orthodox Churches.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

If you're looking at the Bible for a guide to living a compassionate, wise and humane life, well, frankly you've got more chance of finding a lap dancing club in Mekka or a virgin in a catholic orphanage.

The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.

Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.

Wisdom is vindicated by all her children.

All travellers agree that protestant are both richer and more populous than catholic countries;and the reason is, because the habits of the former are more conducive to production.

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