(Priests) cheapjack merchants selling paradise

Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,Reason, a thorn…

— Thomas Chatterton

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos,…

— Frank McCourt

Dogmatic religion has been used to fantastic effect over thousands of years to fuel and exploit emotions like fear and guilt, and the feeling…

— David Icke

Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the most holy…

— Francis of Assisi

One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all…

— Oriana Fallaci

New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

— John Milton

My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he…

— Maximilian Kolbe

“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on…

— Thomas Paine

I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs…

— Pope Francis

Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware…

— Jamie O'Neill

“Tattooists are the new priests for the fucked-up and the thrown away. They speak the language of symbol, and administer penance in tiny metallic…

— Skyler White

The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?

— Tanith Lee