Old man Quote by Bernard Cornwell

“If some priest or other comes to take my confession and give me sacrament, tell him to clear out, quick, and leave me his…

— Kazantsakis Nikos

“What, the priest? I don't want him. You haven't got a rouble to spare. I have no sins. God must forgive me without that.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The God, when he draws near, will the heart stand fast. But, oh my, shame! when of My shame! And let me say at…

— Friedrich Hölderlin

“Often times, none but the devil know your pain. I speak not of the fires of hell, but the fall from heaven.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Holy crap. How fast does a person get sent to hell for checking out a priest?”

— Amy Lamont

“There is no Purgatory-that's a catholic invention. There's life on earth, There's heaven-and there's hell”

— John Irving

“When priests go bad, they go very bad indeed, and commit crimes that would make the average sinner pale.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“The priest must preach the pure words of God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I didn’t know what to do when I realized that a religion that promised me heaven only seemed to bring me a perpetual hell.…

— D.R. Silva

“In my village, one of our priests says that love between men is a great sin- the other argues that nothing at all is…

— Peter Beagle

“The signs of the old flame, I know them well. I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down or the…

— Virgil

“There is no paradise except that which we create in the great tomb of the churches. There is no hell, no inferno except the…

— Henri Barbusse