Priest Quotes · Page 6

Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.

— Cheech Marin

My parish priest regularly rebuilt me in counseling sessions with remarkable and simple advice.

— Michael Caputo

“Working a man to death is the same as shooting a man to death,” the priest said. “Just a different choice of…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“...what else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?...”

— John Geddes

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

— Charles Baudelaire

“...You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls…”

— John Geddes

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic... I'm very faithful.

— Hugo Chavez

“Faith is a viewpoint? That sounds strange coming from the lips of a priest.”

— James Targett

“Spell?” The priest proudly raised his head. “I’m not a godless sorcerer! I don't cast spells! My power comes from faith and…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

“Tom looked more and more like a rabbi. As is the way of men of character in provincial towns, he tended to…

— Frank O'Connor

I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my…

— Therese of Lisieux

“...telling doesn't help me - it helps you. As Wilde says, It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution...”

— John Geddes

I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew…

— Jenny McCarthy

Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be…

— Johnny Vegas

The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who…

— Pope John Paul II

“People like mystery. They want nothing explained, because when things are explained then there is no hope left. I have seen folk…

— Bernard Cornwell

I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in…

— John Shelby Spong

“And then the priest came. I’d never allow this now, but in those days, you didn’t know what best practice was. In…

— The Guardian

A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is…

— Constantin Stanislavski

“What are you?' he [Nanapush] said to Damien, who was deep in a meditation over his [chess] bishop's trajectory. 'A priest' said…

— Louise Erdrich

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal eased but did not end the country's economic ills, a trio of leftist radicals -…

— Robert Dallek

The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word…

— Arthur Middleton

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriendand he's a priest.

— Erma Bombeck

I would love, one day before this is all over, to do a Western. That, and to play a priest.

— Dennis Farina

“...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better.”

— Simon Van Booy

“I do not think I was made to help people." "And what were you made to do?" "To wander.”

— Devin Madson

“Holy crap. How fast does a person get sent to hell for checking out a priest?”

— Amy Lamont

A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

— John Vianney

One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ...than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office

— Dietrich von Hildebrand

“...you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...”

— John Geddes

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme…

— Alfred Loisy

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest.

— Jean Meslier

Compared to what some of the young comics use for material today, I'm a priest.

— Don Rickles

“Your level of knowledge determines if you can be a priest for God or not.”

— Sunday Adelaja

A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

— Victor Hugo

If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to.

— Jeaniene Frost

I can’t tell by looking in your eyes whether you’re a priest or a crook.

— Frank Perdue