“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Each simplest act, each hidden intention, had to be cut to the Rule and polished and perfected like the tiny stones of… — Katherine Cavarly Hulme Copy Share Image
The church was everything: our social engagements, Sunday morning, Sunday evening. Wednesday night was the hour of power. We had Bible study… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
And there is my payment the rubies in your cheeks. Are you properly scandalized by your wicked behavior? If you were Catholic,… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul,… — Peter Maurin Copy Share Image
I'd grown up in a Presbyterian church, but I really didn't know Christ personally in my heart. I knew him, but I… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
First they went after the Communists, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Communist. Then they went after… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
Belonging to the Catholic Church gives your support to an organization that conceals and protects child rapists. Again, not as a few… — Greta Christina Copy Share Image
I think people who are horrifically abused as children and then start to repeat the same thing to their own offspring or… — Rupert Wyatt Copy Share Image
When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in… — Sherri Shepherd Copy Share Image
What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
The political structure in different countries has different origins, different developments. Something which suits one country extremely well would perhaps fail completely… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
“Necessity demands that one should carefully examine who it is that comes to the position of spiritual authority; and coming solemnly to… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of… — Pope Innocent I Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic and I went to church until I was 16. I went through a phase when I was 15… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only… — Tarek Saab Copy Share Image
A mother has a unique perspective. Nobody sees the life of the child the way the child’s mother does—not even the father.… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
“If a well-known and trustworthy person were to go to a public square and tell all the idlers loitering there that on… — St. John Bosco Copy Share Image
I was looking, a piece in the "L.A. Times" about a paper called "The Menace" back in 1915, that was railing against… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
“All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Have you not often met poor old women who are most faithful to the pious recitation of the Rosary? You also must… — Columba Marmion Copy Share Image
I am sent to you to confute, not to embrace your heresy. The Catholic religion is the faith of all ages, I… — Fidelis of Sigmaringen Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy… — Chaka Khan Copy Share Image
I was about 14 when I became a Christian. I had been going to youth group, and I'd heard the Gospel preached,… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I always know it's Sunday because I wake up feeling apologetic. That's one of the cool things about being a Catholic .… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“The problem, Mitch, is that we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants,… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
We need a new apologetic, geared to the needs of today, which keeps in mind that our task is not to win… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I had been growing away from the beliefs of the church, but one of the main things that caused… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
My upbringing was pretty interesting. It was a rigorous, intellectual upbringing, but with the idea that we were a part of an… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
I would say that Catholics came in and competed with the Protestant work ethic. That is one thing. And they did assimilate… — Steve King Copy Share Image
I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism, which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Christian factions, above all the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
With a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, I've always had a great interest in religion, but I've never practiced one myself.… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
My mother converted when I was 16. She was the driving force behind religion in our family. So, I'm sure I was… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
