Priests Quotes · Page 11

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if…

— Graham Greene

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

— Mavis Gallant

How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

— Henri Nouwen

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

— Charles Buck

“To be a prosperous pastor one needs: (1) a bible (2) a tailored suit; and (3) a few psychology books.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Priests are very interested in theater in New York! It's this lovely reminder that priests are just people, too, who need to…

— Stephen Karam

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

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

There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create.…

— Charles Baudelaire

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

According to the oral tradition of Witches, we were once the priests and priestesses of a peasant Pagan religion. Members of this…

— Raven Grimassi

We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die…

— Eric Hoffer

The most central and irrational faith among people is the faith in technology and economical growth. Its priests believe until their death…

— Pentti Linkola

Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching…

— Shomei Tomatsu

“When I was a child, I always hated being used in my father's sermons, shrunk to a symbol to illustrate some larger…

— Patricia Lockwood

I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not…

— Chuck Klosterman

“The Church demands of its priests exclusive dedication, a 24/7 routine that protects the peace of their souls from conjugal strife and…

— Eduardo Galeano

... we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory…

— Gregory Palamas

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

— Anonymous

I am not a priest, I am not an imam, I am not a rabbi and I am implementing the French laws…

— Jacques Myard

Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same…

— Martin Luther

I've had such extremes in my life. From being this kind of wild kid, to one year studying to be a Franciscan…

— Tom Cruise

You were part of a parish life. It was a great community to grow up in. I just was impressed by our…

— Donald Wuerl

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

— Jesse Jackson

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

— William Blake

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read…

— G. M. Trevelyan

I guess God has a sense of humor, when he had a man that wanted to start his life as a priest,…

— Jonathan Cain

In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.

— John Jewel

Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

— Emile Zola

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

— Steven Van Zandt

For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry,…

— Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no…

— Robert Green Ingersoll