Quotes by Catholic The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development. Flannery O'Connor catholic personality thinking The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery; that it has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for. Flannery O'Connor catholic christian mind If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference. Flannery O'Connor catholic differences believe It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them. Fran Lebowitz catholic people school I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now. Frances O'Connor catholic giving thinking The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places. Francis Arinze never-change catholic language Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point. Francis Arinze catholic religious people If you're going to say you're Catholic, you inform your conscience so that you're activities will conform to what God is telling us through the Church. If God is telling you something outside of that, well, the Church will look at that and say: we think it is true or we don't think it is true. The Church might say: that might be true for you but it has no public normative value. Francis George catholic church thinking Moving from unbelief, to Evangelicalism, and finally home to the Catholic Church, Professor Holly Ordway reveals how a gifted mind, longing for transcendence, can only appropriate it if it is wholly given by the reach and power of God's grace. Francis J. Beckwith catholic home moving I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean. Francis Ford Coppola catholic church mean Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians. Francis Xavier catholic christian people Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. Francis of Assisi catholic self giving I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early. Francois Gautier paris catholic class To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within. Francois Fenelon reservations catholic kingdoms MRA is the good road of an ideology inspired by God upon which all can unite. Catholic, Jew and Protestant, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist and Confucianist - all find they can change, where needed, and travel along this good road together. Frank Buchman buddhist catholic together When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Frank McCourt childhood catholic ordinary I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic. Frank Miller catholic men mean Catholic girls with tiny little mustaches. Frank Zappa catholic girl religious They tried to make me go to Catholic school, too. I lasted a very short time. When the penguin came after me with a ruler, I was out of there. Frank Zappa penguins catholic school I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction. Frederik Pohl science-fiction catholic fiction «910111213141516171819»
