George Orwell Quotes

Being a Catholic is the most important aspect of my life.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

I'm a practicing Catholic. And faith is very, very important to me. It was pounded in my head as a kid, and I hated it. And I sort of lost my way in my 20s and part of my 30s and then found my way back. And I don't know what I'd do without it. It's huge in my life.

I try hard to be a good Catholic.

My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.

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

I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.

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

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

I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

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

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

I'm always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.

I just try to be the best Catholic.

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

To arrive at the truth in all things, we ought always to be ready to believe that what seems to us white is black if the hierarchical Church so defines it.

The problem for the churches and synagogues of America is ... the tendency to think of religion itself in terms of "usefulness" and "service" to the community, or the contribution faith can make toward guaranteeing personal "peace of mind." Like almost everything else, religion in America is valued for services rendered.

As a practicing Catholic all my life, my faith and the church are never far from my mind. The lessons I learned in the church have structured the way I've approached my life and my career. They were lessons of grace, kindness, forgiveness, and compassion.