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  • You don't have to let yourself be terrorized by other people's expectations of you.

    Sue Patton Thoele (2016). “The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem”, p.39, Conari Press
  • Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.

    Atheist   Pimp   Atheism  
    William Congreve (1785). “Love for Love: A Comedy”, p.8
  • We need French chaplains and imams, French-speaking, who learn French, who love France. And who adhere to its values. And also French financing.

    Love   Needs   France  
    "Will Secular France’s Quest To Teach Islam Combat Radicalization?" by Chine Labbé, Gilbert Reilhac, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2015.
  • The Concord Coalition in Virginia complained about pork projects and wasteful spending in the federal budget. Consider the Senate chaplain's salary. As occupations go, only mind readers in Los Angeles have fewer things to do all day.

    Virginia   Mind   Pork  
  • For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't until I was beginning to do Star Trek that the subject of religion arose. What brought it up was that people were saying that I would have a chaplain on board the Enterprise. I replied, "No, we don't.

    Stars   People   Brain  
  • A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.

  • Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative. The Constitution of the U. S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. The law appointing Chaplains establishes a religious worship for the national representatives, to be performed by Ministers of religion, elected by a majority of them, and these are to be paid out of the national taxes. Does this not involve the principle of a national establishment ... ?

    Religious   Law   Two  
    "Concerned Catholic Paul Ryan Wants Priests to Shut Up About the Poor" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. April 27, 2018.
  • The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

    'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' (1898) pt. 3, st. 3
  • The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

    Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.128, Penguin
  • You know what, citizens? If you don't have a gun - I'm telling you as a Christian chaplain - sell your clothes, and buy a gun. It's time! The government persecution will be coming against you, and you needs to arm yourselves.

  • He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

    War   Devil   Chaplains  
  • An atheist chaplain would be the perfect vehicle for convincing wounded warriors that they should end their lives because there's nothing in the future and there's nothing now, so why not just save money and kill themselves.

  • What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

    Letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1856
  • A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War--Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force.

    War   Would Be   Purpose  
    Herman Melville (2006). “Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories”, p.75, Bantam Classics
  • Intercession is the truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer: no continent, no nation, no city, no organization, no office. No power on earth can keep intercession out.

    "No Greater Power: Perspective for Days of Pressure".
  • The U.S. Army has recently removed the cross from the insignia worn by chaplains. In its place is a sun with its rays, symbolizing the divine in all things.

  • In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome where it became an institution. Next, it moved to Europe, where it became a culture. And, finally, it moved to America where it became an enterprise.

    Philosophy   Moving   Men  
  • For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

    "In His Name". Book by E. Christopher Reyes, p. 39, 2010.
  • ...several of the first presidents, including Jefferson and Madison, generally refused to issue public prayers, despite importunings to do so. Under pressure, Madison relented in the War Of 1812, but held to his belief that chaplains shouldn't be appointed to the military or be allowed to open Congress.

    Prayer   Military   War  
  • Mentioning God in the Pledge of Allegiance is no different in kind than allowing government salaried Chaplains for the military or for the Congress, or including the official motto, In God We Trust, on our currency.

  • The Southern Baptist Convention, as you know, decided in the year 2000 that women should not be permitted to be pastors or deacons or chaplains in the military service. Some Southern Baptist seminaries don't even permit women to teach male students. I don't agree with that. But they can go in and quote a few passages of Paul that women should be restricted in their services.

  • Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin.

    Men   Evil   Brave  
    George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.436
  • The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

    "Concerned Catholic Paul Ryan Wants Priests to Shut Up About the Poor" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. April 27, 2018.
  • Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first...If we are to heed the admonition to put first things first...one of the main essentials which lies at the very beginning of civilization is that of security.

  • I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

  • The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.

    Country   Prayer   House  
    Daily Telegraph, October 12, 1989.
  • Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.

    War   Godly   People  
    Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west”
  • Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.

    Kings   Jobs   Church  
    "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.
  • The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that amendment... the practice of opening sessions with prayer has continued without interruption ever since that early session of Congress. It can hardly be thought that in the same week the members of the first Congress voted to appoint and pay a chaplain for each House and also voted to approve the draft of the First Amendment... (that) they intended to forbid what they had just declared acceptable.

    Prayer   Men   Views  
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