Priests Quotes · Page 2

“the murmuring priests”

— Donald Revell

you [priests] are called 'another Christ.'

— Mother Teresa

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

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.

— Leopold Sedar Senghor

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

— Broderick Crawford

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

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

— Thomas Paine

Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.

— Robert Browning

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

— Robert Pollok

“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

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

— Anthony Burgess

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

— Voltaire

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed…

— Gabriel Byrne

That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous…

— Peter Jurasik

I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had…

— Warren Ellis

I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in…

— Diablo Cody

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain…

— Naomi Wolf

There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that…

— Thomas Paine

The perpetrators of the Inquisition - the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions - were ecclesiastics of one rank or…

— Sam Harris

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

What I'm doing here is pointing out an irony: Here you have an institution that has systematically protected pedophile priests and then…

— David LaChapelle

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

The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has…

— Thomas Paine

Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do…

— Pope Francis

It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and…

— David Hume

In 1984, Jean Vanier invited me me to visit L'Arche community in Trosly, France. He didn't say "We need a priest" or…

— Henri Nouwen

Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost…

— Lionel Trilling

“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

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

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

— Robert Kilroy-Silk

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

— Martin Luther

Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

— Bill Hicks