Quotes About Ecclesiastic

And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,Was beat with fist, instead of a stick.

Homais, as was due to his principles, compared priests to ravens attracted by the odour of death. The sight of an ecclesiastic was personally disagreeable to him, for the cassock made him think of the shroud, and he detested the one from some fear of the other.

Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

And of all the plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

And of all plagues with which mankind are curs'd,Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.