Top Catholicism Quotes

Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.

Act in such a way that all those who come in contact with you will go away joyful. Sow happiness about you because you have received much from God; give, then, generously to others. They should take l...

Catholicism Definition

(n.) The state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity.

(n.) Liberality of sentiment; breadth of view.

(n.) The faith of the whole orthodox Christian church, or adherence thereto.

(n.) The doctrines or faith of the Roman Catholic church, or adherence thereto.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

Now: unlike ourselves, the Father of Jesus loves men and women, not for what He finds in them, but for what lies within Himself. It is not because men and women are good that He loves them, nor only g...

Most talk of a catholic spirit but it is only till they have been brought into the pale of their own church. This is downright sectarianism, not Catholicism. How can I act consistently, unless I recei...

The moment we care for anything deeply, the world - that is, all the other miscellaneous interests - becomes our enemy. Christians showed it when they talked of keeping one's self "unspotted from the...

When Benedict dies, he will have the pleasure of standing before whatever furious God he believes in, to answer for how it was that he knew for undeniable fact that one -- if not dozens -- of his prie...

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

It is, after all, far too easy to pinch and kick the bizarre Mormon Church; to say it's ripe for satire and parody is to say a Catholic schoolgirl is ripe for debauchery. It's like shooting polygamist...

Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never judged, never treated a single person with co...

In such uncommon longings, hidden in plain sight in our lives, does God call us.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

...all that is carried alongby the stream's silvery cascade,rhythmically falling from the mountain,carried by its own current--carried where?

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

He was alone in his wonderment,amoung creatures incapable of wonder--for them it was enough to exist and go their way.

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.

Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.

But there is no such being as an ordinary man or woman if by ordinary you mean what so many people mean: negligible. Each human being is so tremendous that he or she merits a reverence that is really...