Priests Quotes · Page 4

Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult.

— Bob Barton

Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

— George Pell

Whoever truly worships the gods loves their priests.

— Statius

“Starving men take a hard view of priests too fat to walk.”

— George R.R. Martin

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

— Tom Paulin

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

— Alfred de Musset

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests

— Anonymous

Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday.

— George Lopez

People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.”

— William Blake

Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,Reason,…

— Thomas Chatterton

Don't you understand, mister, you are royalty and God has chosen you to be priest of your home?

— Tony Evans

God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest…

— Shane Claiborne

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or…

— Anonymous

But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!

— John Heywood

I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always…

— Virginia Heffernan

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say…

— George Bernard Shaw

SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge…

— Ambrose Bierce

The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, "Thus far and…

— Edith Hamilton

Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and…

— Georg Brandes

Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly…

— Peter Kreeft

Cale is my signature character in the Forgotten Realms. The most popular character I've written. He's a thief, an assassin, and eventually,…

— Paul S. Kemp

I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw…

— Michel Onfray

Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly…

— Irvin D. Yalom

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

The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability…

— Mother Teresa

If those millions squandered on designing missionaries had been deposited in funds for the support of yourselves, when old age, misfortune, or…

— Anne Royall

“Other priests, he knew, found an intense pleasure in the raw, salty dialect of peasant conversation. They picked up pearls of wisdom…

— Morris L. West

Unfortunately many scientists see themselves too much as priests whose job it is to preach moralistic sermons to people. This is another…

— Hans von Storch

“The intellectual climate of the 1970s, for which the 1950s had already paved the way, contributed to this. A theory was even…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar.

— Rafael Benitez

Oh, you a E head, oh, you a weed head I got a big gun, bigger than Maxi Priest dread

— Sean Price

Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.

— Terry Pratchett

“To be a servant of the Saviour is the sacred service.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

— Ann Patchett

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

— Victor Hugo

Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.

— Timothy Keller

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

— David Hume