Church Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“We priests are in some ways a sad group of men. Born into the world to render service to mankind, there is no one…

— Shūsaku Endō

“He had forgotten that God saw through the silk robes to the sinful heart, that the only wealth worth having was treasure in heaven,…

— Ken Follett

“forsaken him. The priests who serve the”

— Zondervan

“The constable said, “Just time enough for the scars to heal, so that I can whip them open again.” He thought of this statement…

— James A. Michener

“The priests will sell indulgence letters for fornication, for the breaking of vows, for shunning confession, for ignoring fasts, and, of course, for rescuing…

— Barbara Kyle

“the law commanded them to abstain from every servile work, that is, from all grasping after wealth which is procured by trading and by…

— The Church Fathers

“True, the doctrine of purgatory was not so popular outside Roman circles in the nineteenth century. But “penal substitution,” which had been emphasized partly…

— N.T. Wright

“All wicked men’s pains and contrivance they use to escape hell, while they continue to reject Christ, and so remain wicked men, don’t secure…

— Jonathan Edwards

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

— Kay Boyle

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.

— George Meredith

Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.

— Suetonius