Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise… During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
[On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male… — Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks Copy Share Image
The system of fathers of the world church, the clergy system of the state church, and the pastoral system of the independent… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Iran is hard to understand. Although it is ruled in an authoritarian manner, it's not a state in which everything is controlled… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The Church expects that each of us carry a share of the burden of leadership. There is no paid clergy. The work… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If you need help, look to clergy who do not spout their own beliefs but direct you in sincerity by using the… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy. — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is a very rare church indeed that encourages its members to think for themselves in religious matters, or even tolerates this,… — Anne Roe Copy Share Image
Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real… — Fannie Barrier Williams Copy Share Image
I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it… — Amanda McKittrick Ros Copy Share Image
In a sense, the religious person must have no real views of his own and it is presumptuous of him, in fact,… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country.… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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