Character Quote by Edward Gibbon

“I have often wondered, that persons who make a boast of professing the Christian religion, namely, love, joy, peace, temperance, and charity to all…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous.…

— Mark Twain

“We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D—— on the score of orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel…

— Victor Hugo

“will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religious. Nothing…

— Mark Twain

“[Holy ridicule] does not mock the serious things of life, but rather people who take themselves too seriously--not God, but man's ecclesiastical idols; not…

— Harry Boonstra

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

— James Madison

“It is part of the received doctrine of modern biography that all characters are Flawed, and as a Christian priest I am quite ready…

— Robertson Davies

“Every church became a theatre, where orators, instead of church teachers, harangued, caring not to instruct the people, but striving to attract admiration, to…

— Christopher Hitchens

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of…

— James Madison

“If a school of critics were found prepared to pay divine honours to a certain person while doubting whether he was divine, men who…

— G.K. Chesterton

Our Apostolic Mandate requires from Us that We watch over the purity of the Faith and the integrity of Catholic discipline. It requires from…

— Pope Pius X

“We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor…

— Victor Hugo