Excommunicated From Church Quotes

#1. Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?

Philip K. Dick

#2. what consumers are willing to pay can easily be manipulated, and this means that consumers don't in fact have a good handle on their own preferences

Dan Ariely

#3. The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.'
'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.

Brennan Manning

#4. Reader! To whatever visible church, synagogue, or mosque you may belong! See if you do not find more true religion among the host of the excommunicated than among the far greater host who excommunicated them.

Moses Mendelssohn

#5. Never doubt your abilities.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Joyful living is a healthy life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

Fannie Hurst

#8. Growing up, I just wore whatever fit. I was going through crazy growth spurts, so I could never really take my style too seriously.

Chandler Parsons

#9. Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

John Denham

#10. I feel deeply my responsibility to teach sacred things. I am so aware that the world is changing and will be vastly different from the one I have known. Values have shifted. Basic decency and respect for good things are eroding.

James E. Faust

#11. Man is made by his beliefs.
As he believes, so he is.

Anonymous

#12. If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.

Mireille Guiliano

#13. Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

Dalai Lama

#14. Adulterers, in the first stages of the church, were excommunicated forever, and unqualified all their lives for bearing a part in Christian assemblies, notwithstanding they might seek it with tears, and all the appearances of the most unfeigned repentance.

Joseph Addison

#15. The actors of the era knew they were excommunicated. Entering the profession amounted to choosing Hell. And the Church discerned in them her worst enemies.

Albert Camus

#16. The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

Laurell K. Hamilton