13 quotes found
“Your heart is your temple.”
“Tell me, son... have you ever been intimidated by anyone?''Oh yes,' said Thomas. 'I don't believe it. By whom?''By Our Lord... on the altar.”
“To be altarless is to be voiceless”
“When greed is enthroned, be it in a community or nation, ungodliness is celebrated at the altar of human pleasure.”
“When evil altars are invoked, great destinies are altered”
“They like to use those fancy words. They don't like to say raped,' he said. They say misdeed,' inappropriate touching,' mistake.' That's insulting. I'm not a mistake.”
“I was amazed, shocked, and sickened by what I heard throughout the day, over and over, by many victims' stories. I can think of no one with whom I didn't recognize a common thread. These monsters, ...”
“I reflected on other victims I had met and how they were raped right on the altars of their own churches. Some of them were altar boys, and they were abused before or after mass. An altar boy walke...”
“The gods that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.”
“Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.”
“When I think of how much this world has suffered; when I think of how long our fathers were slaves, of how they cringed and crawled at the foot of the throne, and in the dust of the altar, of how t...”
“They like to use those fancy words. They don't like to say “raped,'” he said. “They say “misdeed,' “inappropriate touching,' “mistake.' That's insulting. I'm not a mistake.”
“The ‘gods’ that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.”
