Ecclesiastical Quotes

59 quotes by 47 authors

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. — Benjamin Disraeli
The Churches belong together in the Church. What that may mean for our ecclesiastical groupings we do not know. We have not discovered the kind… — Hugh Martin
Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed to him, so… — Thomas Aquinas
Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world… — Adrian Desmond
In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These… — Pope Francis
In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined. — Leopold von Ranke
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish… — Craig Brown
Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was… — Ethan A. Hitchcock
Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures. — Andres Serrano
The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge. — Lionel Blue
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have… — Angelina Grimke
The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation. — Edward Gibbon
Religion which is interested only in itself, in its prestige and success, in its institutions and ecclesiastical niceties, is worse than vanity; it is essentially… — S H Miller
A simple philosophy to stick to would be that religion and the promotion of religious opinion is none of the government's business. Congress can make… — Unknown Author
Brandon McCaw did a portrait on a start ofhe period was marked by an astonishing breadth and vitality in cultural life for the most parts… — Brandon McCaw
Take the shackles off God. Let Him have a chance to bless mankind without ecclesiastical limitations. — John G. Lake
If the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merely, a careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper, combining, with the… — Robert Peel

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