It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
If you believe in the existence of fairies at the bottom of the garden you are deemed fit for the bin. If… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Surely we can only come to understand each other's beliefs by means of direct encounter and open, honest discussion. In the meantime,… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
“Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
'Eat my flesh,' Jesus says, 'and drink my blood.' The Lord supplies us with these intimate nutrients, he delivers over his flesh… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
“In trying to find out what Bruno thought of his priesthood, we now have a serious problem which we did not have… — John Bossy Copy Share Image
Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
“The Massalians are not dualists but monarchians, and they have dealings with the infernal powers, and in fact some texts call them… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“I once read a short story about some cannibals who didn't turn their victims into steaks and chops and roasts; they made… — Pete Hautman Copy Share Image
If defamation of religion was illegal it would be a crime for me to say that the notion of transubstantiation is so… — Ian O'Doherty Copy Share Image
