Quote by Rod Dreher

During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the…

— Ross Douthat

“One day—when the emperor had come to call on his uncle the cardinal—our worthy priest happened to be waiting as his Majesty went by.…

— Victor Hugo

“I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the church as an institution,…

— Eugene V. Debs

“When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is…

— Lesslie Newbigin

“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

“It is not always the majestic concerns of Imperial ministers which dictate the course of history, nor is it necessarily the pontifications of priests…

— Frank Herbert

“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

“The Church was not left in this world to perfume the dung-heap of fallen humanity, but to take out, one by one, those who…

— Anonymous

“What seems to tend to the church's ruin is often overruled to the ruin of the church's enemies, whose pride and malice are fed…

— Matthew Henry

“the church has unhesitatingly privileged the creed and let the canon fend for itself—”

— N.T. Wright

“virtue without power,” as a speaker had said at the Council of Basle half a century earlier, “will only be mocked, and that the…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“The Lord Uhtred sought to annoy you, bishop," the king said, "and it is best not to give him the satisfaction of showing that…

— Bernard Cornwell