Priests Quotes

Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I think all priests should be married.

— Denis Leary

“All Believers are Priests”

— Martin Luther

“Creation is a temple; humanity its priests.”

— Joshua Ryan Butler

I wanted passionately to be a priest.

— A. N. Wilson

Back in 1994 there was no Judas Priest.

— Glenn Tipton

Despair makes priests and friars.

— Martin Luther

Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Your life is in some bizarre state when priests are throwing abuse at you on the street.”

— Ken Bruen

“In the world we live in, priests and bartenders have a lot in common.”

— Flavia Biondi

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

— Jimmy Buffett

I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.

— Joan Rivers

As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research.

— George Coyne

I miss you like the priests miss the alter boys.

— Anonymous

“For some reason, Area X was very hard on linguists, almost as hard as it was on priests.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

— Kurt Braunohler

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

— Voltaire

I’ll wait out here until the two of you are finished. Just call out if you need anything. Like a priest, cop,…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous…

— Peter Jurasik

I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had…

— Warren Ellis

What the Vatican did will be indelibly and eternally engraved in our hearts. Priests and even high prelates did things that will…

— Israel Zolli

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed…

— Gabriel Byrne

I swear by the mighty power of Amon-Ra, whose anger can shatter the world, and by the dread power of Set, that…

— Griffin Jay

I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the…

— Gloria Estefan

If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored…

— David Brewster

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I don't believe less in American government because of a bad politician. I don't believe less in the Catholic Church because of…

— Lino Rulli

What I'm doing here is pointing out an irony: Here you have an institution that has systematically protected pedophile priests and then…

— David LaChapelle

But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever…

— Graham Greene

Regarding the accusations of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, deplorable and disgusting as those abuses are, they are not so…

— Richard Dawkins

Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate…

— Henry David Thoreau

What are the two of you whispering about?” Alaric demanded irritably. She glanced over to see the warrior watching her, his eyes…

— Maya Banks

The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has…

— Thomas Paine

In 1984, Jean Vanier invited me me to visit L'Arche community in Trosly, France. He didn't say "We need a priest" or…

— Henri Nouwen

To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh,…

— William Davenant

Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do…

— Pope Francis

It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and…

— David Hume

Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost…

— Lionel Trilling

Pope John Paul II himself was kind of a rather independent, creative man. I remember being told by somebody who worked very…

— Chris Matthews