Maria Monk Quotes

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

None of his bishops, abbots or great men, dared to disobey his will on any consideration; but all things divine and human depended on his nod.

I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.

To do my duty, I must obey God.

The Sword and its law have existed from the beginning of the world. The use of force can never prevent heresy.

There are two principles by which the world is ruled: the authority of priests and the royal power. The authority of priests is the greater because God will demand an accounting of them even in regard to kings.

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty—necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

A king's word must stand.

I have no need of learned men. I want faithful subjects. Be such: that is your duty.

There would never have been an infidel had there never been a priest.

One who takes on the humiliation of the State Is called a Ruler: worthy of offering sacrifices to the gods of earth millet; One who takes on himself the calamity of the State Is called a King: worthy of dominion over the entire Empire.

For such is my will.

Faith is not to be kept with him who keeps not faith with God

The pleasures of moral purity are available to those who fancy themselves a small-church militant in an unconverted world.

Allah has given men control over women.

I do further declare him or her, father or mother, brother or sister, son or daughter, husband or wife, uncle or aunt, nephew or niece, kinsman or kinswoman, master or mistress, and all others, nearest or dearest relations, friend or acquaintance whatsoever, accursed, that either do or shall hold, for the time to come, any ecclesiastical or civil power above the authority of the Mother Church; or that do or shall obey, for the time to come, any of her, the Mother of Churches' opposers or enemies

It is yourselves who have called us to this office, and being called by you, we have an authority from God.

It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.

No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.

God doesn’t want me to do this, so I can’t do what God doesn’t want me to do

The first thing a principle does is kill somebody.