Best Catholic Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Speaking at The Catholic University of America's commencement is such an honor because I will be among those who not only value a quality education but a college experience formed by the Catholic faith.”

“People have converted - and all because they've fallen in love with the richness, the depth and the tradition of the Catholic Church.”

“I am excited by the prospects of a Biden presidency for many reasons. One reason is that his Catholic faith, much like President Kennedy's, will embolden him to ask for more from Americans.”

“I grew up Irish Catholic.”

“I went to a Catholic primary school and high school - an all-girls high school - and being queer was never talked about. It was never around me and it wasn't really in the media that I was consuming either.”

“To accomplish his goals, President Biden will have to work with Democrats across a wide ideological spectrum and also seek common ground with Republicans. His relationship with God as a Catholic will help him.”

“I was raised Catholic.”

“I am a Catholic.”

“People are like, 'Oh, they must be Catholic' or 'Oh, she must just want all of his money.' I'm like, 'If I wanted all of his money, why am I having so many children? Children are expensive!'”

“I wasn't a cradle Catholic, but a convert.”

“I'm a Catholic school boy from the military.”

“My mom dragged me by my ear to Catholic school because I was a cutup and thought I needed to see the nuns.”

“Irish people are still very prickly about Catholic Church. Despite all the scandals and cover-ups that have rocked the church, you can only push it so far.”

“I have to tell you, virtually every country I've gone to, the Catholic church is on the cutting edge of social change. Really extraordinary.”

“I got kicked out of Catholic school, by the way, because I was too feminine. I was too feminine and I had a crush on this boy named Anthony and the nuns were not having it.”

“My parents, they gave me everything. They taught me how to work hard. They taught me how to be a good Catholic. They taught me how to love people, how to respect people, but how to stand my ground, as well.”

“Certainly in Catholic countries, the peasantry have always found ways to integrate pagan things in a way that makes it a little bit easier just to be a human being.”

“Rooming with six strangers and having my life taped for MTV's groundbreaking reality series, 'The Real World', in the nation's most liberal city was a formative experience for a young, Hispanic, conservative, Catholic girl from the Southwest.”

“I grew up with this idea that songwriters had a great job. My family was Irish Catholic, so if you became a priest or a songwriter, you were golden.”

“I came from a very conservative Catholic family.”

“The exorcisms I performed and conducted mainly focus on the Catholic ways.”

“The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass.”

“I grew up Catholic, so I had a more traditional relationship with religion.”

“The Catholic Church, though I think it's important that people grow up with moral values, I just always disagreed with their tactics, which I thought were fright tactics, as opposed to sitting down and explaining the situation.”

“In Pope Francis's 'Amoris Laetitia' (The Joy of Love), an apostolic exhortation on Catholic family life, he does not make earth-shattering doctrinal changes with regards to divorced Catholics, same-sex married Catholics, or the church's stance on homosexuality.”

“We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing new to us. This is not a new venture for us. It's who we are and have been from the very beginning of the history of the Catholic Church in this country.”

“My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble.”

“I grew up Catholic, and when you've grown up, and these belief systems have been presented to you at a young, impressionable age, I don't know that you can shake them. Even if your rational mind tells you something else, sometimes they're so deeply ingrained that they are with you for the rest of your life.”

“I embarrass my family, singing all the time. Anything from opera to punk, via a bit of metal and soul. A very catholic taste.”

“Sometimes we can think it would be great to live around the time of Christ in order to be very close to him, but we already are very close to him in the Catholic Church.”

“I'm Catholic. I believe life begins at conception, but I'm also American, and I believe in the separation of church and state. A woman's right to choose is the law of the land, and I support that.”

“When you think about the Catholic Church, it is a bit flamboyant, in't it?”

“I mean, I went to a Catholic school - they call it seminary.”

“I was a strong supporter of Montessori when my kids were very little. I homeschooled for a year, and then we did public school all the way through for the kids. I went to Catholic and public school depending on where I lived.”

“I identify, I guess, as a conservative Catholic.”

“I went to Catholic grade school, so we sang a lot of religious songs: 'O Holy Night,' 'Silent Night.'”

“There are only two or three places in Britain with Catholic and Protestant cathedrals,and Liverpool is one. My wife Montse and I like to go to both of them.”

“I take the teachings of the Catholic Church seriously.”

“The Catholic Church played an integral role in supporting the opening between the U.S. and Cuban governments.”

“I grew up Catholic, and I am a pretty shy person.”

“There's been a lot of Catholic parody - 'Nunsense,' 'Sister Mary Ignatius' - I think they've almost been done to death, actually.”

“I went to Catholic school and experienced racism firsthand from nuns and priests.”

“Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic - those are sort of three layers of repression.”

“When Juan Antonio Samaranch said the Olympics are more important than the Catholic Church, I just couldn't believe it. I said to myself, 'Don't let your expression show that he has just made a total ass of himself. Be cool, and just keep right on talking.'”

“I went to a Catholic girls' school before we moved to Florida when I was 15.”

“I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you would imagine - a little kid with a white-haired teacher frowning at the fact that I didn't practice.”

“For me growing up, I had a Christian upbringing, and I just noticed this Catholic influence in school.”

“It is the strength of our culture that we can have Sonia Gandhi, who is Catholic, a Sikh prime minister, and a Muslim president.”

“The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the imperfect state known as the human condition. First and foremost, if we could ever be perfect or do things perfectly, we would eliminate mystery, an essential ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life.”

“I am not a theologian or a historian, and I feel no call to become a defender of the faith, so in my case, the search for what remains valuable focuses on language itself: Catholic prayer, ritual, the naming of things.”

“I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl, I shouldn't. But I disagree because I think one of the keys to women's progression in the 20th century is being able to control their fertility.”

“The Catholic Church did not always teach that life begins at conception.”

“I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.”

“The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school.”

“I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.”

“I'm a good Catholic - most of the time.”

“Who provides the love and a path to reconciliation? It's not Planned Parenthood; it's the Catholic Church, the other Christian churches, and the ministries they have created.”

“I am not sure I can make clear what it means to say I come from the Catholic side of Protestantism, but at the very least, it means that I do not think Christianity began with the Reformation.”

“The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.”

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

“I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.”

“My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.”

“Raised Roman Catholic up until 11 or 12, didn't stick. Went out into the world and did my own thing.”

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

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

“I would describe myself as a practising Catholic. This is only my opinion; others may disagree.”

“In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.”

“My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.”

“I am highly variable in my devotion. From a doctrinal point of view or a dogmatic point of view or a strictly Catholic adherent point of view, I'm first to say that I talk a good game, but I don't know how good I am about it in practice.”

“The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.”

“I grew up in a very Catholic household. We were pretty conservative.”

“If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.”

“My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with its paintings, sculptures, stained glass, textiles, and fine metalwork.”

“Gert was always of the mind that she wouldn't go to another church except the Catholic Church. So when I would date her in New York City, and later when we went to Oxford before we got married, we always went to the Catholic church.”

“I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures: because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong.”

“I went to Catholic school, and there was this teacher, a Brother, who saw I could go either way, good or bad. He took an interest in me and got me to do a play. I got hooked on acting, and it gave me something constructive to do. I had a lot of energy.”

“I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get older. I'm a cultural Catholic; it's inescapable, but I think I have to believe.”

“For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.”

“I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience. But I also know it's enriched my life, my dad being a Catholic.”

“Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family.”

“In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me.”

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

“I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to wear dress shirts, dress pants, a tie, dress shoes... they stopped making us wear blazers, like, two years before I started there, so pajamas... you wouldn't even get in the front door wearing pajamas at my school.”

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

“I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.”

“I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.”

“Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.”

“I just try to be the best Catholic.”

“I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'”

“I'm a good Catholic girl in the way that Madonna is. In the sense that I'm not that good at all.”

“I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.”

“I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong.”

“Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends.”

“We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.”

“I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.”

“They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council.”

“When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.”

“Growing up Catholic has been a gift.”

“In the Catholic schools, they spend much less money than the public schools, and they get amazing results. Private schools spend much more money than the public schools, and they get remarkable results.”

“I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.”