Priests Quotes · Page 3

Priests clutched onto bibles.

— Coldplay

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

— Thomas Paine

New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

— John Milton

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

— Park Chan-wook

A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.

— H. L. Mencken

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

— Albert Einstein

“If you can confess before a friend, you don't need a priest.”

— Amit Kalantri

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches? Lemuel K

— Lemuel K Washburn

I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

— Broderick Crawford

The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.

— Otto von Bismarck

It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.

— Wendelin Van Draanen

Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest…

— Elie Wiesel

Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated…

— Janine di Giovanni

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

— Anthony Burgess

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

— Federico Fellini

“In Moscow, priests are in love with their standing. They eat fat meat and preach poverty to the miserable.”

— Katherine Arden

Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.

— John Hillaby

“There are two main rules when dealing with priests: 1. Do nothing to them. 2. Do not trust them. - Then it's…

— Karel Havlíček Borovský

I think generally, Pope Benedict did a good job cleaning up the way the church handled abusive priests but didn't go far…

— Ross Douthat

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Christ will remain a priest and king; though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those…

— Martin Luther

O my dear parishioners, let us endeavor to get to heaven! There we shall see God. How happy we shall feel! If…

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity,…

— Carl Jung

One cannot seperate truth from actions...Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best…

— Brandon Sanderson

We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and…

— Paul Arden

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through…

— Pope John Paul II

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon…

— Maria Monk

The Christian religion is derogatory to the Creator in all its articles. It puts the Creator in an inferior point of view,…

— Thomas Paine

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the…

— Carl Sagan

Mother Teresa was a hero of mine for a long time. I just like the way she took on the world from…

— Jack Canfield

Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext…

— Ernest Renan

“Priests confine broad truths into narrow doctrines, because more rules mean that they have more power. Priests mistake their own prejudice for…

— Mercedes Lackey

There are saints in the Roman Curia, among the cardinals, priests, religious, sisters and laity. They work hard, and also do things…

— Pope Francis

Imitation is very easy, and the whole culture and society depends on imitation. Everybody is telling you how to behave, and whatsoever…

— Anonymous

Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people,…

— John R. Rice

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!

— Johnny Vegas

[Ireland is a] country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.

— Robert Kilroy-Silk

But the unfaithful priest, what tongue Enough, shall execrate?

— Robert Pollok

All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.

— Martin Luther