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Quotes About Ecclesiasticism

The great curse of theology and ecclesiasticisim has always been their tendency to sacrifice large interests to small: Charity to Creed, Unity to Uniformity, Fact to Tradition, Ethics to Dogma.
~ Andrew Dickson White
And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.
~ George W Truett
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
~ Thomas Huxley
Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
~ H. L. Mencken