Quotes of: Roman-catholic-church Keyword

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.

Jose Bergamin

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.

John Cusack

You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. They sear you. They sear you; they do.

Douglas Coupland

What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.

Buddy Hackett

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

Frederik Pohl

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

Don DeLillo

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Voltaire

To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation of musical scores

The Devil's Church and Other Stories

The Church has an excellent appetite. She has swallowed whole countries and the question Has never risen of indigestion. Only the Church . . . can take Ill-gotten goods without stomach-ache!

Faust: First Part

I believe that hospitality is central to the heart and ministry of Jesus and that to the extent we fail to extend this hospitality to gay people, the church will fail to walk in the way of Jesus.

Generous Spaciousness: Responding to Gay Christians in the Church

We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient...

Michael Huffington

Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context.

Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.

Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church

Faith is always supposed to make it harder, not easier, to ignore the plight of our sisters and brothers. (p. 165)

Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)

Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

Letters and Papers from Prison

All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was established, consisted of pure correspondence.

True Christian Religion, Vol 1

Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.

Thomas Paine From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'

I've always been interested in apologetics, the topic of different world views and, 'Why are we here?' and 'Where are we going?' I grew up in the church, and sometimes kids who grew up in a church can be sheltered and can't engage with people with di...

Shane Harper

We may not use the sword to advance the church's mission anymore, but the sword is no longer the predominant instrument of cultural power and influence. Today the church emulates the methods of corporations and business, and many of us never pause to...

Skye Jethani