Power has to be protected from scrutiny. That's the principle of every dictatorship, of every autocracy. You hear it from high priests… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Islam, there is no priesthood and each person stands before God, like in the daily prayers, without an intermediary. That's in… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself to be a media guy. It just happens to be that I've had opportunities in the media. I… — Jonathan Morris Copy Share Image
A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High-… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I had THE biggest crush on Helen Reddy. I mean like for REAL crush - like 'spend… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
one life would not suffice, mine especially. To touch everything and leave nothing after oneself! Ah! my God! I hope better than… — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
“The clergy of the TV religion are those entertainers, newscasters in particular, who nightly spread the Word from their cathode-ray pulpit. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Catholic Church wasn't just a part of his parents' live, and his grandparents', it ruled their lives. The priests told them… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests.… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The first days of January 1942 brought enormous amounts of snow. The reader already knows what snow meant for the clergy. But… — Jean Bernard Copy Share Image
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
The most important part of the daily ministration was the service performed in behalf of individuals. ... By his own hand the… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
When I pressed Jesus to my heart, I said to Him: 'I will be a priest. I promise You!' ...Oh, what graces… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life,… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“No despotism, no privileged monopolies, no police societies, no divine rights of the emirs or feudal landlords or shady priests and sheikhs.… — Rami Ollaik Copy Share Image
Under President Trump, our nation is going to make great strides toward protecting the unborn. Priests for Life is in the vanguard… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
A good lawyer is part con man, part priest -- promising riches, threatening hell. My ethical rules are simple. I won't lie… — Paul Levine Copy Share Image
Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?" "Of course there are. Although you mostly find… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The Episcopalians don't demand much in the way of actual religious belief. They have girl priests, gay priests, gay bishops, gay marriages?… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Consumerism has become a new religion, complete with its high priests at Which? and its fatwas against anyone with the temerity to… — Sean O'Grady Copy Share Image
I said to this priest: 'Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was… — Diana Dors Copy Share Image
My parents were part of the Christian Family Movement, where we would have Masses said in our home and rotate with other… — Catherine Hicks Copy Share Image
...in every religion the priest insists on five things - First: There is a God. Second: He has made known his will.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
A Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi, and a Muslim mullah all walk into a bar, and the bartender says: - What is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
