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title: "2 Priesthood Religious Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [“He loathes what he has left behind him, and it is natural to guess that, in his first years of priesthood, his religious nature slept; that he became a priest and notary merely that he “might eat a morsel of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-lang/he-loathes-what-he-has-left-behind-him-and-it-is-natural-to-guess/)

[Andrew Lang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-lang/)

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> [We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-mahony/we-re-not-at-a-point-in-time-to-be-taking-chances-with-children-and/)

[Roger Mahony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-mahony/)

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