T Quotes
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“The priesthood and prostitution. Two very different places with a near identical offering. A roof, a bed, some food, a few bits to spend. In exchange for worshipping some trumped up male a few nights a week.”
“The priesthood conceived magic ceremonies to introduce figures or idols to the influences of superior beings, after which they were modeled. In this performance of worship, they were obliged to be dressed in the proper color. In this way, these early astrologers-priests by their practices introduced idolatry”
Source: Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars
“The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.”
Source: A Sermon Preach'd Before the Sons of the Clergy, At Their Anniversary-Meeting In The Cathedral-Church of St. Paul, Dec. 6. 1709
“The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If one is obedient, the priesthood can show how to break a habit and even erase an addiction. Holders of the priesthood have that authority and should employ it to combat evil influences.”
“The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.”
“The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.”
Source: Henry and Cato
“The priesthood of God has become the eminent power for good in the world. We are no longer a handful of people on the fringes of society. This great power for good has been entrusted to us, and we must not weaken it by failing in our responsibilities.”
“The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.”
Source: Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica
“The priestly duty is to proclaim the gospel of God.”
“The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Sanctity is intimacy with God; it is the imitation of Christ, poor, chaste and humble; it is unreserved love for souls and self-giving to their true good; it is love for the church which is holy and wants us to be holy, because such is the mission that Christ has entrusted to it. Each one of you must be holy also in order to help your brothers pursue their vocation to sanctity.”
“The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.”
“The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.”
“The priests in church said it would be as difficult for the rich to go to heaven as it was for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. I imagined the rich were busy making a gigantic needle with a huge, camel-sized eye. If you think about it, that needle has been forged. It exists. And a ceaseless cavalcade of camels passes through it.”
Source: Mother Mary Comes to Me
“The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.”
Source: Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet
“The priests say that you are a sinner and that you will go to hell. And the priests make you very afraid of loving yourself, which cuts off the roots to your inner being, to your inner source of love. Your whole life will be wasted
in self-condemnation. That is why there is so much hate and lack of love in the world.
The idea of learning to love yourself arose because of all the religions for centuries teaching you not to love, accept and respect yourself. The religions have created a
conditioning in the mind which condemns you. It is the priests and the state which has created this condemnation through continuous repetition to convince you that there are things in you that is not acceptable. You have to hide them, you have to repress them. They teach you that the unacceptable in you has to be controlled, condemned and
repressed.”
Source: The Call of the Heart
“The priests were painting me in blood and honey.”
Source: Servant of the Bones
“The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after them Gordon was a piece of cake.”
“The prima facia responsibility of our birth is to identify the upgrade of our consciousness to merge and unite with the divine unconditionally. Our goal of life is way beyond the understanding of a layman on Earth.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular cross burning is intended to intimidate. The First Amendment does not permit such a shortcut.”
“The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.”
“The primal duties shine aloft, like stars;
The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless,
Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.”
Source: The Excursion,: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem
“The primal need for self-expression and documentation has appeared in human beings since the dawn of humankind. Our ancestors began carving shapes on rocks more than 40,000 years ago, and now graffiti has become a popular urban medium for self-proclamation an evidence of one’s egoic identity reinforcement, an innate desire to pronounce oneself and leave a mark in the world.
The wall is a sacred place. Containing layers and layers of joy and pain, it is a collective scream on the voice of humanity; it is raw, vulnerable, and real.”
Source: In Search for Meaning
“The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to it, it will be possible to go on for ever inventing plants and know that their existence is logical; that is to say, if they do not actually exist, they could, for they are not the shadowy phantoms of a vain imagination, but possess an inner necessity and truth. The same law will be applicable to all other living organisms.”
“The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.”
Source: Equality: American literature
“The primarily thing to know about stress is that it primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over . Stress comes from ignoring things that you should not be ignoring. If you find that some particular thing is causing you to have stress, that should be a warning flag for you . What it means is if that there is something which you have not completely identified yet in your conscious mind, that is bothering you and if you have not taken any action against it, once as soon as you start writing the first email , text or a phone call to address the situation , it incredibly relieves your stress even if that problem is not resolved .
That works for your job, business, relation or anything that may stress you out.”
“The primary agency responsible for rallying U.S.-led interests around the world appears to be having the air sucked out of it. If you are Russia and you are looking at that right now, do you love what you are seeing?”
“The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.”
Source: George Orwell's 1984
“The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.”
“The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon.”
“The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.”
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky
“The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.”
Source: The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
“The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion”
“The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.”
“The primary asset of any business is its organization.”
“The primary audience for Christian Apologetics should be other Christians. The bulk of Christians in the world have not deeply, critically considered their reasons for believing with the result that they tend to hold a number of ungrounded and often damaging beliefs, and they are not able to defend what beliefs they hold.”
“The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.”
“The primary benefit of a vegan diet is that the removal of animal products usually necessitates a higher amount of nutrient-rich plant produce. The cons of a vegan diet could be the inclusion of too much heavily processed food, including seitan and isolated soy protein, flour, sweeteners and oils.”
“The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.”
“The primary cause of disease is in us, always in us.”
“The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence of the few. But a new element of unrest has been added: a growing awareness that mass poverty is caused by defective institutions that prevent our harnessing the physical capabilities of science, engineering, management and labor to create general affluence; in other words, a growing awareness that poverty in any country that is or can be industrialized, is man's not nature's fault.”
“The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.”
“The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life.”
“The primary cause of illness and disease: Incorrect human environmental conditions.”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“The primary cause of this national crisis is the feminization of men.”
“The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is... lack of faith.”
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.”
Source: Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.”
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
“The primary causes of unhappiness? Having a bad commute. If you have a job, the drive there is the most stressful thing you’ll do on any given day. And people with particularly long car commutes are more likely to be depressed, have a mental health breakdown, and even get divorced.”
Source: Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories in Extreme Futures