488 Quotes About Catholicism

No unclean thing shall enter into heaven.

I can tell you that I believe—that the human heart’s mysterious ability to love others is never wrong. Your heart will never ask your permission to love. It’s going to love whomever it was made to love, and the best thing you can do is follow it.”― Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky

A heavy morning of audiences had neither tired nor depressed him. In a black cassock with no decoration, his neck enclosed in a Roman collar, but at ease, he appeared young, slender, elegant, above all available, lively, calm, in possession of himself and also of that French which he evidently enjoyed speaking, unfolding it like a roll of cloth, rather slowly.

Facts about Jesus that I told Kimberly to annoy her1. Jesus was Jewish2. Jesus was a socialist3. Jesus was a refugee4. Jesus was anti-death penalty5. Jesus was anti-school prayer (Matthew 6:5)6. Jesus was opposed to the accumulation of wealth7. Jesus was silent on the issues of homosexuality and gay marriage8. Jesus was a brown-skinned Middle Easterner who wore sandals to the dinner table9. Jesus was a friend to prostitutes

Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine – but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight

America is wired Catholic, labeled Protestant, and currently functioning as secular.

Nothing is more disconcerting, it seems to me, than to enter a home or apartment in which there are no books and no place for books, no sign a book had ever been there. It always seems like a kind of desecration to me, even though I am perfectly aware that bookless people can also save their souls and can have much practical wisdom, something Aristotle himself recognized.

Ik was nog niet aan het vormsel toegekomen toen mijn moeder ons hele gezin uitschreef omdat de paus een reeks uitspraken had gedaan die haar niet bevielen.

As soon as the gold in the casket rings; the rescued soul to heaven springs.