Long week Quote by Isabel Allende

“From that time on the parish priest began to show signs of senility that would lead him to say years later that the devil…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Jerome was a marvelous advocate of chastity: yet hear his confession: “O, how often have I thought myself to be in the midst of…

— Martin Luther

“Perhaps that was one of the flaws of the faith: life’s pleasures were all sins, as if the senses were the enemy of the…

— Stephen P. Kiernan

“He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs…

— Émile Zola

“When he was left alone, when he had pulled out one stop after another (for the work required it), Stanley straightened himself on the…

— William Gaddis

“And believe me, the Catholic Church has much to thank Dante for. His Inferno terrified the faithful for centuries, and no doubt tripled church…

— Dan Brown

“I can still see the picture that was created in my head as I learned about the eternal struggle between good and evil going…

— Travis Culliton

“As it was a time of war between the Catholics and the Huguenots, and as he saw the Catholics exterminate the Huguenots and the…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Sex, sin, and the Devil were early linked.”

— Arthur Miller

“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven men in…

— H.G. Wells

“One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner.…

— Oscar Wilde

“He loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service--the tall priest strutting like a carrion crow and pronouncing magic in a dead…

— Dan Simmons