Catholic Creed Quotes & Sayings

Religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it is no longer Catholic, that is to say, Universal. — Max Heindel

Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian. It is not to keep Sunday idle; to attend meetings; to be wet with water; to read the Bible; to offer prayers in words; to take bread and wine in the meeting house; love a scape-goat Jesus, or any other theological clap-trap. — Theodore Parker

It behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune. — Niccolo Machiavelli

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. — Pope Benedict XVI

Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of them can explain why. I love that. London's middle-aged and male, respectably married but secretly gay. — David Mitchell

On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of what I've done or what I've gone on to achieve in my career. — Lionel Messi

It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies. — Martin Sheen

One problem with the discipline of marketing is that everyone knows enough about it to make suggestions, but most don't know enough to offer good advice. — Eric M. Jackson

Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries. For nearly all Christians since that time, Catholics, Protestants, or Orthodox, have shared three basic premises. First, they accept the canon of the New Testament; second, they confess the apostolic creed; and third, they affirm specific forms of church institution. But every one of these - the canon of Scripture, the creed, and the institutional structure - emerged in its present form only toward the end of the second century. — Elaine Pagels

Just as in one man there is one soul and one body, yet many members; even so the Catholic Church is one body, having many members. The soul that quickens this body is the Holy Spirit; and therefore in the Creed after confessing our belief in the Holy Spirit, we are bid to believe in the Holy Catholic Church. — Thomas Aquinas

I love any comedic zombie movies. — Atticus Shaffer

You could say that I am the Estee Lauder woman. I'm a working mother; time is valuable to me. I want a good product; I want quality. — Aerin Lauder

women are our sisters. And a woman can bear greater burdens if she can look in her hands and see the world there. A woman can — Anonymous