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An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index. -- Octavio Paz
Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel. -- Ethan A. Hitchcock
Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption -- James Madison
Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair. -- John Cheever
Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history. -- James Madison
Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures. -- Andres Serrano
The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge. -- Lionel Blue
The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it. -- Noah Webster
The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves. -- Francis Schaeffer
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians. -- Angelina Grimke
We bless the organized church structures and their meetings. But if there are 10,000 others that meet outside of these ecclesiastical structures, that's wonderful, too. The kingdom of God moves forward in lots and lots of ways. -- Richard Foster
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety. -- Craig Brown
Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers. -- Charles Buck
It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject. -- Joseph Story
In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation. -- Pope Francis
Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time. -- Eugene Kennedy
Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust. -- Daniel Noonan
God's grace is not limited by any ecclesiastical barriers. -- Lesslie Newbigin
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions. -- Barbara Tuchman
Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals. -- Mark Twain
An archbishop is an ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop. -- Ambrose Bierce
MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages. -- Ambrose Bierce
The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together. -- J. B. Bury
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance. -- James Madison
Scripture would not only solve the individual and family divisions, but it would also solve the ecclesiastical confusion. -- Tony Evans
In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined. -- Leopold Von Ranke
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism ... -- Angelina Grimke
There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities. -- Otis Moss III
It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the Church. -- Peter Canisius
The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching. -- John Adams
I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment. -- Oliver Cowdery
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects. -- James Madison
Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal. -- George Agnew Reid
Almost all Europe, for many centuries, was inundated with blood, which was shed at the direct instigation or with the full approval of the ecclesiastical authorities. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life. -- Abraham Kuyper
The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses. -- Maxim Gorky
I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source. -- John F. Kennedy
Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical. -- Thomas Jefferson
God has appointed two kinds of government in the world, which are distinct in their nature, and ought never to be confounded together; one of which is called civil, the other ecclesiastical government. -- Isaac Backus
If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television. -- Gerald Durrell
Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Over the pope as expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there stands one's own conscience which must be obeyed before all else, even if necessary against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Any church program, no matter how impressive, if it is not supported by an adequate prayer program, is little more than an ecclesiastical treadmill. It is doing little or no damage to Satan's kingdom. -- Paul Billheimer
The ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire and torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy cold region, a giant refrigerator. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion. -- Edward Gibbon

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