O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
An honorable man would never abandon his friend in time of need, especially if they were in a foreign country. Why? For… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I think you've got good people and bad people in everything you do. If you start making a big deal of it,… — Master P Copy Share Image
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of… — Pope Benedict XIV Copy Share Image
Dogmatic religion has been used to fantastic effect over thousands of years to fuel and exploit emotions like fear and guilt, and… — David Icke Copy Share Image
In obedience to humanity, the King of the universe come down from heaven! In obedience to humanity, he lives imprisoned on the… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
People are always asking, "Is this person in front of me the same on the inside as he or she appears to… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious,… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and controversial… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“Deathless Kings, High Priests, let’s call them the thaumaturgical class, are growing used to power and the resources that accompany it. They… — Max Gladstone Copy Share Image
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list --… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?… — Annie Dillard 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
You don't want to be like the motion picture exec who had so many people at his funeral, but they were there… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If priest is closed to forgiveness, he won't receive it, because he locked the door from the inside. And what remains is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I was very religious when I was younger. I went to a seminary for three years, studied to be a priest, and… — Peter P. Mahoney Copy Share Image
God can be good and terrible-not in succession-but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty;… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
The priest invents and encourages every kind of suffering and distress so that man may not have the opportunity to become scientific,… — Robert Sheaffer 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
I don't think anybody should be celibate - and that goes for priests as well as nuns. I don't even like to… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
![“The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and controversial radio broadcaster] Father Coughlin and [racist and anti-Semitic agitator and founder of the Christian Nationalist Crusade] Gerald L.K…” quote by James Ellroy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fcc/james-ellroy-2967_anti-semitic_the-lunatic-populism-that-preceded-the-p_1871634.jpg)
![“[On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male closed shop, seeing that, to judge from church attendance, women are the more religious sex - while our criminal statistics make quite clear that they are the least wicked.” quote by Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cc/mary-stocks-baroness-stocks-77_activity_on-women-as-priests-it-has-always-seemed_2325007.jpg)
