#catholic

My family is very traditional, Catholic. ↗

— Paz Vega

#family #traditional #very

I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#bunch #catholic #dealt #gay #go

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

— Danny Boyle

#anything #brought #catholic #i #practice

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#british #catholic #enjoy #i #know

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

— Kate Clinton

#catholic #given #happy #i #i was raised

For though we know quite well that God is present in all that we do, our nature is such that it makes us lose sight of the fact; but when this favour is granted it can no longer do so, for the Lord, who is near at hand, awakens it. And even the favours aforementioned occur much more commonly, as the soul experiences a vivid and almost constant love for Him whom it sees or knows to be at its side. ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#god #religion #spirituality #experience

[W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing comes from what has been accepted and experienced both and that I have just not got that far yet all the time. Conviction without experience makes for harshness. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#conviction #experience #writing #experience

Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #faith #god #god-s-grace #grace

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. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#experience

It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave it up to them to choose the Faith on their own responsibility at a point in time difficult to determine. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#catholicism #christianity #faith #infant-baptism #theology