Priest Quotes

by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

— Victor Hugo

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

— Tom Landry

I wanted to be a priest when I was really young.

— Nicholas D'Agosto

“I went to the priest for confession, but he didn’t do it.”

— Jarod Kintz

I can be a priest too if I say I am...

— Dr Steven Brule

The Holy See is holy blind to sexual child abuse.

— Steve Fowler

“The rebel leader and the priest.”

— Alyssa Day

I wanted passionately to be a priest.

— A. N. Wilson

“...maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrusted monks...”

— John Geddes

“...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...”

— John Geddes

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

— Charles Caleb Colton

A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

— John Milton

It's very important to respect the conversation between a priest and the members of their flock.

— Erin O'Toole

“Would you like me to rid you of it?” “The priest?” “The dress.”

— Darynda Jones

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.

— Arthur Middleton

“I can taste fear, and lies, on a man's skin, Cavrax." The Master Priest whispered, watching the large pulse on the cleric's…

— C.N. Faust

“We priests are in some ways a sad group of men. Born into the world to render service to mankind, there is…

— Shūsaku Endō

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus…

— John Dryden

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be…

— Johnny Vegas

The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who…

— Pope John Paul II

“When Silas said Gabriel was a priest, I assumed he meant to a real congregation, not the caretaker of an empty building…

— Rachel Higginson

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

Actually, acting turned out to be the perfect job for me, because I had a lot of different interests. I thought about…

— John C. Reilly

“Do you think you people will get it on the six or seventh hundredth time? We’re being ironically evil.” “But he’s actually…

— Yahtzee Croshaw

The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The…

— Arthur Middleton

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest…

— Arthur Middleton

Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished…

— Alan King

I spent my junior year in Switzerland. On the way back home, I spent some time in England, and I remember going…

— Antonin Scalia

You look at what happened to the priest over the weekend in Paris, where his throat was cut, 85-year-old, beloved Catholic priest.…

— Donald Trump

It's also giving back to the community that put us all there in the first place. Priest wouldn't be here without the…

— Richie Faulkner

“The first days of January 1942 brought enormous amounts of snow. The reader already knows what snow meant for the clergy. But…

— Jean Bernard

“Can we believe that the real God, if there is one, ever ordered a man to be killed simply for making hair…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit…

— H. G. Wells

“Next, the cranky priest was waiting for Emily when she returned home and demanded to hear her confession. Funnily, she omitted her…

— Annette J Dunlea

“As I let it out, layer by layer, Dr. Driscoll helped with the bumps and valleys. He knew just how much to…

— Charles L. Bailey Jr

“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“A plain, brown paper-wrapped package came in the mail recently. Upon opening it, I saw that it was a patchwork quilt about…

— Charles L. Bailey Jr

“The unhappy priest was breathing hard; sincere horror at the foreseen dispersal of Church property was linked with regret at his having…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa