The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Aimee-"If someone's possessed by a demon, how do you get the demon out?" Xedrix-"Call a priest. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward… — Willard Fiske Copy Share Image
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new… — G. Harry Stine Copy Share Image
I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I reflected on other victims I had met and how they were raped right on the altars of their own churches. Some… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Tezuman priests have a sophisticated calendar and an advanced horology," quoted Rincewind. "Ah," said Eric, "Good." "No," said Rincewind patiently. "It… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
These [conservative] people, if they're Americans, look back on the last 35 years of our ecclesial experience and take heart from that.… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I always wanted to sing, I always loved to sing. As a child I was singing all the time, and my parents… — Mari Boine Copy Share Image
I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A sense of self has to be sought in the parade of images and products; and this culture becomes the main determinant… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
“I have now gone through the Bible, as a man would go through a wood with an axe on his shoulder, and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Good gracious!" she exclaimed, "she's been more than an hour in there! When the priests set about cleansing her of her sins,… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
or The Last Exorcism, I researched a lot of real exorcisms. I watched videos of exorcisms, I listened to tapes, and I… — Ashley Bell Copy Share Image
People aren't going into gay bars in Orlando and saying, "Jesus Christ!" They're not going into the Charlie Hebdo, the 85-year-old priest… — Michael T. Flynn Copy Share Image
There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Suppose you went to your priest and asked for help; he would refer you to the Bible. But if you went the… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian,… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for… — Pete Postlethwaite Copy Share Image
“I had met quite a few priests in my long life, and found that they were, by and large, like anyone else—some… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
I am not a theologian, nor am I a priest or a minister, but I think building walls is fundamentally contrary to… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image