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God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.
For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us.
The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.
I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart.
(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)
I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.
Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.
God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love.
Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.
Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
The reason I say I'm a horrible person is I don't want myself to be presented as somebody who's a great Catholic.
That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.
The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the 'sporty good girl.'
I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced.
The catholic church has a lot more money than any Colombian cartel and they leave a lot more bodies in their wake.
Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.
Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity!
I am an Irish Catholic person. I've been a man and a woman. I speak Russian, sort of. And then I'm very diplomatic.
I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.
The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit.
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.
The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.
I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.
The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.
If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.
Peter Stanford is a writer on religious and ethical matters. He was for four years editor of the 'Catholic Herald.'
I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?
For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.
I did denounce it. I de-I denounced it. I denounced interracial dating. I denounced anti-Catholic bigacy... bigotry.
I grew up in a small, old-school Catholic world, imprinted with an above-average number of categories and judgments.
I think the strength of the Catholic church is that when it does finally identify a problem, it works to resolve it.
I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.
Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though.
Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.
We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
I go to the Catholic Church. God is an important part of my life. If he was not, I don't think I could have survived.
We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.
Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors.
I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.