When priests go bad, they go very bad indeed, and commit…

“When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as “Mother” Teresa on the fast track for beatification,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't really believe…

— Richard Dawkins

Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian…

— Sean O'Casey

Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the most holy…

— Francis of Assisi

One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all…

— Oriana Fallaci

New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

— John Milton

My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he…

— Maximilian Kolbe

“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on…

— Thomas Paine

I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs…

— Pope Francis

Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware…

— Jamie O'Neill

“Tattooists are the new priests for the fucked-up and the thrown away. They speak the language of symbol, and administer penance in tiny metallic…

— Skyler White

Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,Reason, a thorn…

— Thomas Chatterton