Catholic Church Quotes

As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

If we leave our values at the door, we give up some of the moral glue that has held our country together

For all of the separateness of church and state, Christian morality has shaped Britain and its inhabitants for a very long time.

I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.

At the end of the day, the Lord knows I have no malice in my heart. But I've got tattoos, and I still fornicate.

The vital Christian arouses opposition because he is a standing rebuke to the selfishness and sin of those around him.

Politics have no relation to morals.

I'm a pro-life Roman Catholic conservative, always have been.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of beliefs assessable to anyone upon reflection.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

Young people are told that they are standing up for Christ and resisting America's sexualized culture by claiming virginity as a countercultural, radical stance.

Our Ancestors founded their government on morality and religious sentiment. They were brought hither by their high veneration of the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate it with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influences through all their institutions, civil, political, social, and educational.

I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. As far as possible I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that he has spared me the indignity of being your representative.

The profound influence of religion on American politics is vital, but it is best when indirect: on the morals, habits, and souls of individual Americans; on the political climate and the principals that should guide policy, rather than on specific policies themselves…

America is a Christian nation ... The less we emphasize the Christian religion, the further we fall into the abyss of poor character and chaos.

The presence in society of different, sometimes opposing political convictions and discordant interests generates political struggle which is waged by both legitimate and morally justified methods and methods sometimes contradicting the norms of public law and Christian and natural morality

If you are a humble person, politics is not for you. Politics is brutal, cruel and vicious and is incompatible with Christianity.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

If the Soviet Government orders me to act against my conscience, I do not obey …. Conscience is above the law. No law which is against the conscience can bind.