Holy man Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

“...he was trying to pave his way to heaven by plastering over his sins with the putty of religious zeal.”

— Karen Marie Moning

“I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now I was free. There was such glory over everything. The…

— Harriet Tubman

“And there were moments on that first night in this fetid little paradise when I prayed that in spite of all my secret power,…

— Anne Rice

“Oh, how crafty of religion, I cried out indignantly, to transplant rewards and punishments into a future life in order to comfort cowards and…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“All kind of marvelous things go on. I don't see how anyone who has looked, and seen, can do ought but say, ‘where I…

— John Wood

“there was about his elders an ease in the holy place, and a levity, that made his soul uneasy.”

— James Baldwin

“now I saw it was so far from any goodness in me to own myself spiritually dead and destitute of all goodness that, on…

— Jonathan Edwards

“chuckled. “It’s strange to talk like that, isn’t it? As if the Second Coming of Christ were Halloween, or New Year’s Eve, a finite…

— Robert J. Wiersema

“He thought that I was helpless, because he saw me lonely and poor; but are not the armies of Heaven for the like of…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“... there are as holy persons outside orders as ever there are in, and not to trifle with truth, as good men out of…

— Ellis Peters

“The mission sat in a converted store front on the corner of a medium-busy street. There was a small crowd gathered in front -…

— Jeff Lindsay

“I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his…

— Tom Holland