SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, "Thus far and… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of… — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
The Pope, if nothing else, should be a Catholic. If he were to announce that women would make great priests, except it's… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
“I was amazed, shocked, and sickened by what I heard throughout the day, over and over, by many victims' stories. I can… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone… — Dennis McKenna Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,and dismiss whatever insults your own soul... It is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The immense wealth of doctrine and institutions can become a handicap if we are trying to present all of that to a… — Raniero Cantalamessa Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
And priests dare babble of a God of peace, Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood, Murdering the while, uprooting… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Atheists blame religion when priests do wrong. Anything can be misused, whether it is nuclear power or a matchstick. So, how can… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at… — Judy Grahn Copy Share Image
The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them;… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I remember coming back from training one day and Simon Poidevin was talking to a priest. I thought...this was going to be… — Phil Kearns Copy Share Image
God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Another similarity of Brexit and Trump's campaigns was an attack on so-called elites. This is not so much a failure of capitalism… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the time will come when the opinions of priests and doctors must give way to the science of… — Phineas Quimby Copy Share Image
The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will… — Alex Johnston Copy Share Image
My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
What happens at the average church or synagogue or mosque is that I don't know many priests or ministers or rabbis who… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
