Priests Quotes · Page 5

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

— Kurt Braunohler

“Holding onto failed dreams only makes you bitter.”

— Joseph C. Sciarillo

“For some reason, Area X was very hard on linguists, almost as hard as it was on priests.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

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

— George Pell

I sort of think of myself as part priest, part clown.

— Richard Simmons

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests

— Max von Sydow

All Muslims stand before God and they are their own priests.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Take Jesus for your king, and by baptism swear allegiance to him; take him for your prophet, and hear him; take him…

— Matthew Henry

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created…

— Orson Scott Card

I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing. Because the priest…

— Elvis Costello

There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than…

— Thomas Merton

Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.

— Anonymous

I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests. I'm the new Barry Fitzgerald, except with a Mexican accent.

— Cheech Marin

Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.

— Glenn Tipton

I think religion is very anti-man. I think it's a terrible distortion and exploitation of a very natural urge every human has…

— George Carlin

Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends…

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have…

— Thomas Jefferson

You look at what happened to the priest over the weekend in Paris, where his throat was cut, 85-year-old, beloved Catholic priest.…

— Donald Trump

The Christians are always singing about the blood. Let us give them enough of it! Let us cut their throats and drag…

— Gus Hall

I was told by my father, who was a priest, that it was the basic duty of a Muslim to establish peace…

— Asghar Ali Engineer

It's also giving back to the community that put us all there in the first place. Priest wouldn't be here without the…

— Richie Faulkner

I'd got accepted to the seminary in Wisconsin, and I was gonna become a priest, but the last second I thought, 'I'll…

— Jack White

That’s the way it is with our Father in Heaven. When you became a son or a daughter, when you were adopted…

— David Jeremiah

And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of…

— Graham Greene

Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated. A…

— Rajneesh

It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober…

— Tertullian

Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates…

— Rajneesh

LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of…

— Ambrose Bierce

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies to liberty; and it is certain, that this steady conduct of theirs…

— David Hume

Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult.

— Bob Barton

Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

— Honore de Balzac

It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car.

— Pope Francis

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

— Karl Kraus

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism

— John Haynes Holmes

The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.

— Colin Quinn

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

— James Clavell

The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.

— Saint Augustine