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Mentioning God in the Pledge of Allegiance is no different in kind than allowing government salaried Chaplains for the military or for the Congress, or including the official motto, In God We Trust, on our currency. -- Orrin Hatch
He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain. -- John Ray
There's a Chaplain who never visited the front. -- Kurt Vonnegut
A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen. -- Diane Johnson
I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister. -- John Green
The chaplain of the Senate does not pray for the Senate. He watches the Senate and prays for the country. -- Sam Levenson
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! -- Charles Darwin
We need French chaplains and imams, French-speaking, who learn French, who love France. And who adhere to its values. And also French financing. -- Manuel Valls
The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract. -- Oscar Wilde
The U.S. Army has recently removed the cross from the insignia worn by chaplains. In its place is a sun with its rays, symbolizing the divine in all things. -- Chris Murray
When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff? -- A.C. Grayling
Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named. -- William Congreve
An atheist chaplain would be the perfect vehicle for convincing wounded warriors that they should end their lives because there's nothing in the future and there's nothing now, so why not just save money and kill themselves. -- Gordon Klingenschmitt
The Concord Coalition in Virginia complained about pork projects and wasteful spending in the federal budget. Consider the Senate chaplain's salary. As occupations go, only mind readers in Los Angeles have fewer things to do all day. -- Argus Hamilton
I don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid. Of course, when a chaplain shows up, that can exacerbate this worry rather than calm it. -- John Green
The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front. -- Kurt Vonnegut
You know what, citizens? If you don't have a gun - I'm telling you as a Christian chaplain - sell your clothes, and buy a gun. It's time! The government persecution will be coming against you, and you needs to arm yourselves... -- Gordon Klingenschmitt
It is a Constitution that morphs while you look at it like Plasticman.... That is contrary to our whole tradition, to in God we trust on the coins, to Thanksgiving proclamations, to (Congressional) chaplains, to tax exemption for places of worship, which has always existed in America. -- Antonin Scalia
...several of the first presidents, including Jefferson and Madison, generally refused to issue public prayers, despite importunings to do so. Under pressure, Madison relented in the War Of 1812, but held to his belief that chaplains shouldn't be appointed to the military or be allowed to open Congress. -- James Madison
Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first...If we are to heed the admonition to put first things first...one of the main essentials which lies at the very beginning of civilization is that of security. -- Calvin Coolidge
Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains. -- George Bernard Shaw

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