{"quotes":[{"text":"That’s when I have to ask him. “Can you really talk like that? Being holy and all?”“What? Because I’m a priest?” He finishes the dregs of his coffee. “Sure. God knows what’s important.","author":"Markus Zusak","tags":["cursing","cussing","holiness","holy","language","priest"],"id":3188,"author_id":"Markus+Zusak"},{"text":"Thousands of cars and a million guitarsScreaming with power in the air!We've found the place where the decibels raceThis army of rock will be thereTo ram it downRam it down!Straight to the heart of this town.Ram it down.Ram it down.Razing the place to the ground,Ram it down!","author":"Rob Halford","tags":["down","halford","it","judas","metal","music","priest","ram","rob","rock"],"id":3565,"author_id":"Rob+Halford"},{"text":"Sećam se da sam jedno jutro video ispred samoposluge nekog popa kako ljušti kikiriki, odmah mi je bilo jasno da neće biti mira na Balkanu.","author":"Slobodan Tišma","tags":["balkans","church","priest","religion","war"],"id":8642,"author_id":"Slobodan+Ti%C5%A1ma"},{"text":"At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony of Genesis and Geology.' Like all hypocrites, these men overstate the case to such a degree, and so turn and pervert facts and words that they succeed only in gaining the applause of other hypocrites like themselves. Among the great scientists they are regarded as generals regard sutlers who trade with both armies.Surely the time must come when the wealth of the world will not be wasted in the propagation of ignorant creeds and miraculous mistakes. The time must come when churches and cathedrals will be dedicated to the use of man; when minister and priest will deem the discoveries of the living of more importance than the errors of the dead; when the truths of Nature will outrank the 'sacred' falsehoods of the past, and when a single fact will outweigh all the miracles of Holy Writ.Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then, and not until then, will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher, become a real and blessed truth.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["applause","blessed","brave","cathedrals","church","churches","civilize","clergyman","creeds","dead","discoveries","elevate","enlighten","errors","fact","facts","failed","falsehoods","generals","genesis","geology","great","harmony","holy-writ","honest","hypocrites","ignorant","lectures","living","mankind","minister","miracles","miraculous","mistakes","money","nature","past","patriot","peers","perfert","philanthropist","philosopher","poet","priest","progress","pursuit","real","recognition","reputation","sacred","school","science","scientific","stlers","superstition","teacher","think","truth","university","use","vapid","waste","weak","wealth"],"id":14144,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.","author":"Dan Simmons","tags":["conversation","missionary","priest"],"id":17693,"author_id":"Dan+Simmons"},{"text":"In the end, only the truth will survive.","author":"Pierre Teilhard de Chardin","tags":["evolution","jesuit","paleontologist","philosopher","priest"],"id":17985,"author_id":"Pierre+Teilhard+de+Chardin"},{"text":"The priest must teach the people, the fear of God.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian","fear-of-god","inspirational","pastors","pope","preachers","priest"],"id":23363,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"You will go far in the Church.'I have no desire to go far. My only ambition is to be a good priest.'You will be that, of course. Nevertheless, you will go higher. And do you know why?”“Why?”“Because,” said Orselli, “you are not afraid of worldliness. I do not mean that you are worldly. Far from it. But you have a talent for being all things to all men.","author":"Henry Morton Robinson","tags":["catholic","church","priest","priesthood"],"id":41124,"author_id":"Henry+Morton+Robinson"},{"text":"I met two or three men who were very kind to me. There was a magistrate who couldn't stand priests, and a priest who didn't have a good word to say for magistrates; and there was a landlord who let furnished rooms by the hour and spoke highly of both priests and magistrates, because both were his best clients.","author":"Pitigrilli","tags":["bigotry","hypocrisy","magistrate","priest"],"id":48436,"author_id":"Pitigrilli"},{"text":"I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the great and good are dead, that the living are totally depraved, that all pleasures are sins, that sighs and groans are alone pleasing to God, that thought is dangerous, that intellectual courage is a crime, that cowardice is a virtue, that a certain belief is necessary to secure salvation, that to carry a cross in this world will give us a palm in the next, and that we must allow some priest to be the pilot of our souls.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["belief","blind","country","courage","cowardice","crime","cross","dead","depraved","destroy","fear","free","good","great","groan","ignoble","ignorance","intellect","living","past","people","pilot","pleasing","pleasure","prejudice","priest","salvation","sigh","sin","thought","virtue","want","worship"],"id":51438,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":68,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}