Guillermo del Toro Quotes

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.

I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.

Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything

I always know it's Sunday because I wake up feeling apologetic. That's one of the cool things about being a Catholic . . . it's a multifaceted experience. If you lose the faith, chances are you'll keep the guilt, so it isn't as if you've been skunked altogether.

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

I was raised a Catholic, so I can even feel a little, you know, embarrassed or guilty if I'm really offending people's sensibilities. To a degree.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a sin as long as you don't take pleasure from it.

My mom was Roman Catholic, my dad was part of.

For me growing up, I had a Christian upbringing, and I just noticed this Catholic influence in school.

I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.

Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.

I was brought up as a Catholic. I've got A-level guilt.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. I think religion does a lot for us but I can't quite believe it, alas... It's just a personal choice. I love the idea of heaven though. Who doesn't? It's lovely.

Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason

I never lost my faith...But like all modern Catholics, I felt for a time that I had outgrown the church. Now it is a bone of contention in my soul that I did not share my faith with my kids, as my parents did with me. It was a source of grace when I needed it. I have been greatly nurtured and inspired by my faith.

The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.

Every once in a while I check and I say, do I still believe in God? And the answer is absolutely yes. And then I think, I suppose I should go to church now. But after going to so many churches in my life and trying to go with the flow with so many denominations, Eastern and Western, I don't really feel I need to go to church at all.

And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.