Priest Quotes · Page 7

Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.

— BD Wong

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

— Gustave Flaubert

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

— Karl Kraus

The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign.

— John O'Donohue

I was an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church and no priest ever laid a hand on me. That's me, always…

— Dana Gould

“Oh, thank goodness you’re here,” the priest said. “I think this poor boy tried to kill himself with a sledgehammer.”

— Joey Comeau

“if she had not been a gypsy, and if he had not been a priest”

— Victor Hugo

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises…

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

“It was a fitting animal for a priest. Cats guard the secrets of the otherworld and are liaisons with mystic realms. Protectors…

— M.J. Rose

[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to…

— Mavis Gallant

We're not a band that takes any kind of political stance. That's not what we're about as Priest. But we're observers of…

— Rob Halford

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest,…

— Anonymous

“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

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

When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my…

— Sam Claflin

My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my…

— Andrew Greeley

God is alive. He has created every one of us, and he knows us all. He is so great that He has…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“This cassock, I admit, is in need of repair," he said, straightening. "But am I really so prolix?" "Heavens no, Father," I…

— William L. Biersach

To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in…

— Colin Gunton

“Bit by bit, Dr. Driscoll helped me to peel away the layers of protection I had built up over the years. The…

— Charles L. Bailey Jr

An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare…

— Alec Guinness

“...is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?...”

— John Geddes

Trying to do Christianity properly is tough. Life as a priest is rigorous and disciplined. It involves sacrifices.

— Richard Coles

“Who the fuck calls their priest when their son is having a crisis?" "I do, now shut up!" Ma answered.”

— Katelin LaMontagne

I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.

— Wilson Mizner

“...yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence...”

— John Geddes

“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.

— Denis Diderot

I thought, I'm not god of truth, but the priest did not even realize you lie to me

— Mak_786

“I think, for the writer, rather as for the priest, there isn't such a thing as success.”

— Graham Greene

Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

— Bible

[To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!

— Carrie Nation

“Could I survive in the world as an ex-priest that no one wanted anything to do with?”

— Charles Benedict

Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.

— Irvine Welsh

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

Don't you understand, mister, you are royalty and God has chosen you to be priest of your home?

— Tony Evans

“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