Quotes About Chaplains

#1. Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.

Barney Ross

#3. 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

#4. From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.

M. Stanton Evans

#5. 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

#6. Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.

M. Stanton Evans

#7. 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

#8. Marines getting baptized? This used to be a place of men with pure warrior spirit. Chaplains are a goddamn waste.

Evan Wright

#9. 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

#10. There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

John Ray

#12. Never underestimate the impact of a small act.

Tory Burch

#13. Sometimes the most difficult thing to do is to believe in yourself, the reason it is so hard is because it is worth it.

Tonny K. Brown

#14. A wise man's sorrow is better than a fool's happiness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. The only thing some people do is get older.

E.W. Howe

#16. I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives us on to what we must finally become ... This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis.

David Malouf

#17. My tiny scary friend is coming here.

Laini Taylor

#18. One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church's economy is built on consumerism. If churches see themselves as suppliers of religious goods and services and their congregants as consumers, then offerings are 'payment.'

Doug Pagitt

#19. The woodcutter brushed the dust from his beard and reflected on how sphinxes would live much longer if they asked a different riddle.

Kate Danley