Faith is believing beyond the power of reason, when they're all against you. To one who has faith, no explanation is possible. To one without faith, evidence is necessary.
If faith never encounters doubt, if truth never struggles with error, if good never battles evil, how can faith know its own power? In my own pilgrimage, if I had to choose between a faith that has stared doubt in the eye and made it blink, or a naiv...
Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired his faith. Faith?" said the Master. He had the courage of his convictions, didn't he?" That was fan...
Faith keeps the world going.
It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.
Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young.
I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.
I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.
I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.
As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.
For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.
Being a Catholic is the most important aspect of my life.
I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.
The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.
I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.
My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.
It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.
Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.
The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.