Sectarian priests cry out concerning me, and ask, "Why is it this babbler gains so many followers, and retains them?" I answer,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
We really want to send the message that commanders need to understand and be accountable. We saw that with the Catholic Church.… — Amy Ziering Copy Share Image
In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I think everybody has had the experience at some point when they feel that there's more to life than just matter. But… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To be a great teacher, you can't simply be looking at how to earn your income. And with a priest or spiritual… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
“He was truly a man of faith. He believed in his friends, in the truth of things, and in something to which… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
As long as leadership from above was not lacking, the people fulfilled their duty and obligation overwhelmingly. Whether Protestant pastor or Catholic… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I was that kid. I was entertaining everybody in the living room and throwing myself down flights of stairs and making the… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
“When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as “Mother” Teresa on the fast track… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
If some day they take the radio station away from us, if they close down our newspaper, if they don’t let us… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We have Islamic rebels [in Syria] who've been eating the hearts or organs of their enemies. We have priests that have been… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Everyone works in the service of man. We doctors work directly on man himself... The great mystery of man is Jesus: 'He… — Gianna Beretta Molla Copy Share Image
I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
When I was at school I got lines for dropping a big squelchy, loud fart. My teacher, who was a priest, made… — Brian McFadden Copy Share Image
Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further… — Angelo Scola Copy Share Image
There is a view that jazz is 'evil' because it comes from evil people, but actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street… — Garth Hudson Copy Share Image
And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Nowas you all know, this week, Pope Benedict told Vatican Radio—you know, Vatican Radio, playing the hits from the 8th century, 9th… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
A Catholic priest who’s been sending threatening notes to Conan O’Brien was charged with stalking in the fourth degree. It just goes… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents--they were so upset and reproachful...I felt as if something they all… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated,… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
I am here to help you unburden all your guilt feelings. I am here to help you to start trusting yourself again.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Because religious training means credulity training, churches should not be surprised to find that so many of their congregations accept astrology as… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood is said,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
All I've got on my iPod is every single Queen song and every single Judas Priest song. Queen were an incredible heavy… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
Everyone say to himself: 'When was the last time I went to confession?' And if it has been a long time, don't… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Some religions believe that there's a hierarchy, that you don't have a connection, but you must go through the shaman or the… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
It was peace. Peace is when you would shake the hands of the people around you. And you knew peace was coming… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image