Priests Quotes · Page 31

While we destroyed the Centre Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of…

— Adolf Hitler

Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be…

— Swami Vivekananda

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

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

— Carl Sagan

By the time I went to the Catholic University of America, which was the time the priests were all leaving with the…

— Susan Sarandon

Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?" "Of course there are. Although you mostly find…

— Cassandra Clare

No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.

— Nan Goldin

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

— Gustave Flaubert

I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not…

— Uwem Akpan

St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than…

— Jeanette Winterson

We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the…

— Daniel Berrigan

Guilt is imposed by others on you. It is a strategy of the priests to exploit. It is a conspiracy between the…

— Rajneesh

I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating…

— A. J. Liebling

How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the…

— Edmund White

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

— Thomas Merton

“The only other person attending who was close to her age was Father St. Laurent, a devastatingly good-looking Roman Catholic priest who…

— Julia Spencer-Fleming

“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“(Priests) cheapjack merchants selling paradise”

— Jean Lorrain

I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.

— William Mapother

The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.

— John Henry Newman

I started moving away from poets like Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane and started reading poets like, again, Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov,…

— Billy Collins

you [priests] are called 'another Christ.'

— Mother Teresa

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

— Anonymous

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of…

— Albert Murray

Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all -…

— Vance Havner