Brother Quote by George Carlin

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

— Teresa of Avila

Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents--they were so upset and reproachful...I felt as if something they all passionately believed…

— Philip Pullman

I miss you like the priests miss the alter boys.

— Anonymous

I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole…

— Patty Griffin

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

— Francis Ford Coppola

The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved,…

— Tom Robbins

“After all, the Church had murdered itself, as with every decade more and more depressed dubiousness crept into its synods and convocations, until speaking…

— Will Self

If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But he was sick of this charade. Sick of watching people lose a little more of their humanity each day, and sick to death…

— Brom

“We have no way to quantify the damage done by telling tens of millions of children that masturbation will make them blind, or that…

— Christopher Hitchens

I did the good priest and the bad and felt that I am getting stereotyped in priest roles. I am not picking them anymore.

— Joy Mathew

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