Jim Carroll Quotes

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

I try hard to be a good Catholic.

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

I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

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

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean.

I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years.

Being a Catholic in any way is great, but I feel particularly blessed to have served at the altar, where the work of Christ through the priest can be seen up close.

I'd grown up very Catholic, parochial school, and Warlock was a way of working a lot of things out.

I grew up Catholic, so I feel guilty about everything.

Christianity is, above all other religions ever known, a religion of sacrifice. It is a religion founded on the greatest of all sacrifices, the sacrifice of the Incarnation, culminating in the sacrifice on Calvary.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

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

I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.

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

Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

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

God-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it.

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

I was raised - and still consider myself to be - Catholic, though I'm non-practicing and haven't fulfilled my Easter duty since sometime during the Nixon years. I'm assailed by all kinds of stimulating doubts, but I do believe in God.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.