Catholicism Quotes - Page 10

• To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well as Richard Wagner.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Mein Kampf, Luther

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide.

  Tom Spanbauer

  Suicide, Believe, Catholic

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, believermag.com. May 1, 2014.

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• When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes.

  George Meyer

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. September 1, 2004.

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• Catholicism is a really mean religion, and it's incredibly hypocritical. But it plays a role in my life 'cause you can't really get a lot of things out of your head, such as what Jesus Christ looks like and that divorce is a horrible thing.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Jesus, Mean, Divorce

  Source: www.ultramadonna.com

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• The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend on human beings... If this were not so, the founders of religion could not be counted among the greatest men of this earth... In its workings, even the religion of love is only the weak reflection of the will of its exalted founder; its significance, however, lies in the direction which it attempted to give to a universal human development of culture, ethics, and morality.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Powerful, Lying

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Volume I, Chapter 8 - The Beginning of My Political Activities, 1925.

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• I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Buddhism, Light, Stronger

  Mahatma Gandhi (1929). “Young India”

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• Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Wish, Trying, Too Much

  Pope Benedict XVI (2004). “Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions”, p.116, Ignatius Press

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• It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

  Saint Augustine

  Firsts, Would Be, Flesh

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• Benedict XVI leaves no room for uncertainty or minimization. At this present time in which she feels humiliation, the Church learns from the Pope to not fear the truth, even when it is painful, to not hide it or cover it up. However, this does not mean enduring strategies to discredit (the Church) in general...It is appropriate, then, that we all return to calling things by their names at all times, to identify evil in all of its gravity and in the multiplicity of its manifestations.

  Angelo Bagnasco

  Mean, Names, Evil

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• The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.

  St. Jerome

  Keys, Heaven, Church

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• Who knows if the one whose hands are bloodied with Father Grande's murder, or the one who shot Father Navarro, if those who have killed, who have tortured, who have done so much evil, are listening to me? Listen, there in your criminal hideout, perhaps already repentant, you too are called to forgiveness.

  Oscar Romero

  Father, Hands, Evil

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• I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest flows naturally.

  Oscar Romero

  Country, Lying, Roots

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• When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises.

  Oscar Romero

  Giving, Church, Misery

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• We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.

  Oscar Romero

  Home, Suffering, Has Beens

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• As a pastor, I am bound by a divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that includes all Salvadorans, even those who are going to kill me.

  Oscar Romero

  Giving, Divine, Pastor

  "Voice of the Voiceless: The Four Pastoral Letters and Other Statements".

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• Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

  Samantha Morton

  Huge, Survived

  "Samantha Morton: 'I could play a prostitute convincingly because my best friend was one'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

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• Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ, will live like the grains of wheat that dies. It only apparently dies. If it were not to die, it would remain a solitary grain. The harvest comes because of the grain that dies. We know that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses; that God wants; that God demands of us.

  Oscar Romero

  Effort, Wheat, Demand

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• A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.

  Paul Bloom

  God, Men, Animal

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• Our efforts cannot and should not substitute for just public policies and effective programs to meet the needs of the hungry...Money, food, and time donated to Catholic charities should not be misread as a sign for success for volunteerism, but rather a desperate attempt to feed the hungry people when others have abandoned their responsibility.

  John Ricard

  Responsibility, People, Effort

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• The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.

  Pope Pius X

  Christian, Church, Evolution

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• What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction

  Saint Augustine

  Eye, Holy Eucharist, Blood

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• We, as Catholics are not permitted to believe anything of our own will, nor to choose what someone has believed of his. We have God's apostles as authorities, who did not themselves of their own wills choose anything of what they wanted to believe, but faithfully transmitted to the nations, the teachings of Christ.

  Isidore of Seville

  Teaching, Believe, Catholic

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• Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

  Saint Augustine

  Punishment, Suffering, Lasts

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• Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost through not praying. If they had prayed they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be their greatest torment in hell: to think how easily they might have been saved, just by asking God for His grace, but that now it is too late - their time of prayer is gone.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Prayer, Blessed, Thinking

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• The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world's poorest people.

  John Ricard

  Country, Health Education, Poverty Reduction

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