Believe Quote by David Sedaris

“Thirdly, in other parts, where they have a written language, as in the East-Indies, China, Japan, &c. they know nothing of the gospel. The…

— William Carey

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits… Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only…

— John Adams

“Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging…

— Pat Conroy

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.

— John Adams

Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?

— Anonymous

Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers.

— Janine di Giovanni

“At the Unitarian Universalist Christmas pageant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it didn't matter that Mary insisted on keeping her nails painted black or that Joseph…

— Marina Keegan

I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins.

— Lesley Howarth

These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.

— Elizabeth Kostova

“In marked contrast to the relaxed, typically Latin attitude of the Dominicans the Protestant missionaries were still proceeding at full blast with the fight…

— Philippe Descola

The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors. Being superior…

— Henry David Thoreau

“They were students of the expressions of young women as they went in to confession, and they saw them as they came out and…

— John Steinbeck