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ecclesiastical
«The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.»
Author: Angelina Grimke
| Keywords:
Christians, civil, despotism, ecclesiastical, obedience, Republicans, submission, unqualified
«Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves»
Author: Francis Schaeffer
| About:
Church,
Relationships
| Keywords:
doctrinal, ecclesiastical, rightness, starting
«Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Government,
Religion
| Keywords:
bodies, constitution, Constitution of the, Constitution of the United, Constitution of the United States, ecclesiastical, encroachment, encroachments, furnished, government in, government of the United, government of the United States, guarded, illustrate, illustrated, illustrates, illustrating, precedents, separation, strongly, the United States, United States, United States Constitution, United States government
«Religion which is interested only in itself, in its prestige and success, in its institutions and ecclesiastical niceties, is worse than vanity; it is essentially incestuous.»
Author: S. H. Miller
| About:
Religion,
Success
| Keywords:
Bad Religion, ecclesiastical, essentially, incestuous, institutions, interested, niceties, nicety, prestige, such institutions, vanity, worse
«ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.If I were a jolly archbishop, On Fridays I'd eat all the fish up -- Salmon and flounders and smelts; On other days everything else. --Jodo Rem»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
archbishop, Archbishop of, dignitaries, dignitary, ecclesiastical, flounder, floundering, flounders, Fridays, holier, jolly, REM, salmon, smelted, smelts, the fish
«GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, commonly fashioned into a grotesque caricature of some personal enemy of the architect or owner of the building. This was especially the case in churches and ecclesiastical structures generally, in which the gargoyles presented a perfect rogues' gallery of local heretics and controversialists. Sometimes when a new dean and chapter were installed the old gargoyles were removed and others substituted having a closer relation to the private animosities of the new incumbents.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
animosities, architect, Buildings, caricatures, chapter, churches, deans, eaves, ecclesiastical, gallery, gargoyle, Heretics, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, install, local, mediaeval, owner, personal relation, Personal relations, presented, projecting, spout, spouted, spouting, spouts, substituted, The Building, The Dean, This Was
«The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
apt, ecclesiastical, faction, factions, heat, moderation, profane, profaning, sincerity