. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You should beware of priests, my son. And people who don’t drink vodka. Worst of all are priests who don’t drink vodka.” — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop. — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
I love what I'm doing. It's my life. When it's time to go, I'll probably be fighting to get out of the… — Lou Duva Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests in gold… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In other words, you're taking away your freedom of speech. And they [ministers and priests] started telling me about the Johnson Amendment… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“He advocated that all who follow Jesus are priests, not just the official clergy. Much of what he said made sense, as… — David Holdsworth Copy Share Image
“Priests come to my home beside the northern sea where they find an old man, and they tell me I am just… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of… — Pope Benedict XIV Copy Share Image
Dogmatic religion has been used to fantastic effect over thousands of years to fuel and exploit emotions like fear and guilt, and… — David Icke Copy Share Image
In obedience to humanity, the King of the universe come down from heaven! In obedience to humanity, he lives imprisoned on the… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason,… — Ethan Allen Copy Share Image
He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a… — Antonio Villaraigosa Copy Share Image
The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest. — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday. — George Lopez Copy Share Image
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The best trick I learned was when a priest came to me when I was an altar boy and said, "Always, when… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits? — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image