Stephen Colbert Quotes

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

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

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.

I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues.

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'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated.

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 grew up Catholic, so I feel guilty about everything.

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

I have sinned against you, my Lord.

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

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

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

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.

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

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.

As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'