Canon Law Quotes

#1. After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

Abbe Pierre

#2. The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#3. It is not the practice of the Holy See to disclose information on the religious discipline of members of the clergy or religious according to canon law.

Gerald Posner

#4. The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.

Peter Drucker

#5. The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#6. ADULTERINE (ADU'LTERINE) n.s.[adulterine, Fr. adulterinus, Lat.]A child born of an adulteress:a term of canon law.

Samuel Johnson

#7. Look at the history of civil laws in our world and the source from which they emerged, and you will see that the vast majority of them arose directly from, or where based in principle on, Roman Canon Law, or the laws of other religious origin. Sharia is another notable example.

Neale Donald Walsch

#8. A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation where the keepers of religion may themselves become one of the greatest dangers to the credibility - and the morality - of the church itself.

Joan D. Chittister

#9. By the former of these (canon law), the most refined, sublime, extensive, and astonishing constitution of policy that ever was conceived by the mind of man was framed by the Romish clergy for the aggrandizement of their own order.

John Adams

#10. Few people know that, by canon law, each and every Catholic altar must contain a holy relic.

James Rollins

#11. Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

Roger Mahony

#12. Weddings in our society seem designed to reduce the bride and groom to precisely the condition of those who, because they 'lack sufficient use of reason,' are 'incapable of contracting marriage,' according to canon law.

Nancy Mairs

#13. 'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common with other 'Catholic' writers.

Mary Gordon

#14. Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?

Anonymous

#15. Being brave doesn't mean always having to fight alone.

Esther M. Friesner

#16. There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

Hugo Black

#17. All the western nations are caught in a lie, the lie of their pretended humanism: this means that their history has no moral justification, and that the West has no moral authority.

James Baldwin

#18. The biggest single thing that has lifted people out of poverty is free trade.

George Osborne

#19. The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

John Adams

#20. Our freedom through Christ means we are all free to love one another and to serve one another.

Chris Vonada

#21. Numberless have been the systems of iniquity contrived by the great for the gratification of this passion in themselves; but in none of them were they ever more successful than in the invention and establishment of the canon and the feudal law.

John Adams

#22. Just know that I was once considered just a dreamer ... Then I paid my dues and turned so many doubters to believers ...

Big K.R.I.T.

#23. One thing my parents always taught me was to maximize my options.

Monica Raymund

#24. If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Richard Hofstadter

#25. Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

Ray Bradbury

#26. Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.

Gillian Flynn

#27. The Romany culture is not really in the media that much and Jack Thorne wanted to portray that.

Yasmin Paige

#28. I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

Zbigniew Herbert

#29. It would be interesting to go to Buckingham Palace. I'd just like to see what goes on - I'm not bothered about hearing any political chat.

Pauline Quirke

#30. I reckon it does take a powerful trust in the Lord to guard a fellow, though sometimes I think that Cora's a mite over-cautious, like she was trying to crowd the other folks away and get in closer than anybody else.

William Faulkner