Priests Quotes · Page 3

Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests.

— Cheech Marin

you [priests] are called 'another Christ.'

— Mother Teresa

“forsaken him. The priests who serve the”

— Zondervan

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

“If you can confess before a friend, you don't need a priest.”

— Amit Kalantri

The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.

— Otto von Bismarck

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

— Broderick Crawford

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!

— Johnny Vegas

It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.

— Wendelin Van Draanen

The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the…

— Pope Francis

But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.

— Aldous Huxley

“And there, on that road, that very minute, he started to play - the most lonesome music that them priests ever in…

— Eddie Lenihan

Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion…

— Charles Dickens

If a Hindu wants to find the way to God, he has the right to go to any priest, nun or any…

— Mother Teresa

Picasso.” He whispers like a priest. “Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, ripped from the earth with…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“When priests go bad, they go very bad indeed, and commit crimes that would make the average sinner pale.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs…

— Andrew Greeley

“Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course,…

— Dorothy Day

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful,…

— Johannes Kepler

To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he…

— Sam Smith

money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order…

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried…

— Jonathan Davis

Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law.…

— Honore de Balzac

As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises…

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

These [conservative] people, if they're Americans, look back on the last 35 years of our ecclesial experience and take heart from that.…

— George Weigel

I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because…

— Barack Obama

I always wanted to sing, I always loved to sing. As a child I was singing all the time, and my parents…

— Mari Boine

“The clergy of the TV religion are those entertainers, newscasters in particular, who nightly spread the Word from their cathode-ray pulpit. The…

— Anonymous

“The Catholic Church wasn't just a part of his parents' live, and his grandparents', it ruled their lives. The priests told them…

— Louise Penny

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath…

— James Russell Lowell

But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests.…

— Charles Spurgeon

We persevere because we are preserved by our High Priest's intercession.

— R. C. Sproul

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

— Bill Hicks

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

— Martin Luther

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

— Robert Pollok

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

— Robert Kilroy-Silk