Quotes About Clericalism

#1. It also happens to me that when I meet a clericalist, I suddenly become anti-clerical. Clericalism should not have anything to do with Christianity. St. Paul, who was the first to speak to the Gentiles, the pagans, to believers in other religions, was the first to teach us that.

Pope Francis

#2. Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.

Giulio Andreotti

#3. Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does.

Julien Green

#4. There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil; it is they who are responsible for the woes of mankind. The dismissal of the individual's responsibility for his own misery is the quintessence of clericalism.

John Carroll

#5. Here we come upon the old, old craze of the world, which has not yet learned to do without clericalism
that to live and work *for an idea*is man's calling, and according to the faithfulness its fulfilment his *human worth* is measured

Max Stirner

#6. I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures. Because these need to get out!

Pope Francis

#7. Your greatest moment in life soon joins a series of other moments and is often forgotten. As you rise, so shall you eventually fall.

Twinkle Khanna

#8. If freedom once required a secular critique of religion, it can also require a religious critique of the secular.

Harvey Cox

#9. It is the process of searching for meaning, not the hypothetical attainment of it, that is important. So long as we spiritually try, we stay alive in the fullest sense of the word.

Robert L. Schwarz

#10. When Satan attacks you, command him in the Name of Jesus to bend his neck. On the back of it you'll find there's a nail scarred foot print!

E. Stanley Jones

#11. I'm from Wisconsin; well, that's where I went to school from, like, sixth grade till I graduated high school.

Evan Glodell

#12. My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#13. And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant.

Paulo Coelho

#14. I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events, but actually replicate in-bred qualities of human nature which create those animal spirits.

Alan Greenspan

#15. The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

Guy Finley

#16. I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

Sam Houston

#17. Motley's the only wear.

William Shakespeare

#18. The only kinds of ways we have to deal with viruses are old school, so vaccines for example are very effective, but the first vaccines were invented in the 1700's, so we're talking about technology that is over 200 years-old.

Carl Zimmer

#19. pony, mashed potato, alligator, watusi, twist, jerk.

A.V. Club

#20. Watch the growth of middle level management. Don't automatically fill vacant jobs. Leave some positions unfilled for 6-8 months to see what happens. You will find you won't need to fill some of them.

Donald Rumsfeld

#21. I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction.

Edith Wharton

#22. You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.

Natalie Gulbis