Rite/christian

Famous quotes containing the words rite and/or christian:

“[T]he Congregational minister in a neighboring town definitely stated that ‘the same spirit which drove the herd of swine into the sea drove the Baptists into the water, and that they were hurried along by the devil until the rite was performed.’”
—For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)