Roman Catholic Church

Famous quotes containing the words catholic church, roman, catholic and/or church:

    “It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.”
    —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    “A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.”
    —Marian Wright Edelman (20th century)