#catholic

I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything. ↗

— Danny Boyle

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The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#british #catholic #enjoy #i #know

I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith. ↗

— Dean Cain

#buddhist #call #catholic #christian #down

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

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Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#appeal #catholicism #conventional #does #me

It did matter to get out of bed. There were webs to weave. Strings to grasp. Packages to deliver. Conversations to start. Thoughts to be expressed. Sams to slam into. Oceans to swim. And sad little men hiding in electrical sockets, waiting to be born of the human imagination. ↗

— Bud Macfarlane Jr.

#catholic #inspirational-attitude #motivation #attitude

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head. ↗

— Alan Alda

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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#beforehand #believe #catholic #committed #died

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

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