Ecclesiastical Quotes

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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous… — James Madison
The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political… — Barry Goldwater
The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed… — Edward Gibbon
Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may… — James Madison
Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while… — Thomas Jefferson
The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security… — Walt Whitman
Seeing there are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors, yet as the… — Origen
It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the Church. — Peter Canisius
Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals. — Mark Twain
The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe, which serve to support tyrannical governments, are not the Christian religion, but abuses and corruptions of it. The religion of… — Noah Webster
Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust. — Unknown Author
If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger… — George Washington
Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite… — James Madison
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy… — John F. Kennedy
Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance. — James Madison
In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ...… — James A. Garfield
Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and… — Unknown Author
It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to oppose birth control,… — Susan Jacoby
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to… — John Stott

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