Steve Coogan Quotes

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

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

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

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

The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

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

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

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

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we've done or we're about to do. At times like this, it's wise to prayerfully consider whether we're offending God with our actions.

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

I know I'm a sinner.

Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

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.

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

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

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.