Rob Walton Quotes

In 1984, I gave a speech at Notre Dame titled 'Religious Belief and Public Morality.' I said that Catholic legislators will live by the laws of the church because we want to stay in the club.

It's troubling for me as a Catholic to be at odds with the church.

If it should be declared that contraception is not evil in itself, then we should have to concede frankly that the Holy Spirit had been on the side of the Protestant churches in 1930 …. This would mean that the leaders of the Church, acting with extreme imprudence, had condemned thousands of innocent human acts, forbidding, under pain of eternal damnation, a practice which would now be sanctioned. The fact can neither be denied nor ignored that these same acts would now be declared licit on the grounds of principles cited by the Protestants, which popes and bishops have either condemned or at least not approved.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?

The responsibility to do missionary work rests with every member of the Church.

I only want three children for every family. I'm a Christian, but I'm a realist, so we have to do something with our overpopulation. I will defy the opinion or the belief of the Church.

Christian Science has been enormously influential in our religious history, and the church is very powerful. It has won an extraordinary number of legal battles in this country. It has succeeded in passing a number of what are called 'religious exemption laws.'

Judges cannot - nor should they try to - align our legal system with the Church's moral teaching whenever the two diverge. They should, however, conform their own behavior to the Church's standard.

Marriage is a sacrament, and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church, not with Parliament.

Contemporary audiences are interested in watching characters navigate ethical challenges and moral dilemmas.

You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.

To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

Is the life you seek to take worth the one you could one day create? (Savitar)

On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist.

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

Whatever good religion has done, it has come at a terrible price.

Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.

Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!

To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.

There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine of infant damnation. 'The Almighty,' he explained, 'finds it necessary to do things in His official and public capacity which in His private and personal capacity He deplores.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?