Priests Quotes · Page 6

I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.

— Jean-Luc Godard

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

— Tanith Lee

To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest

— Glenn Danzig

A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.

— John Dryden

“Priests know how to bury the worst scandals.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

— John Haynes Holmes

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

— Victor Hugo

Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron…

— Eddie Trunk

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

You were part of a parish life. It was a great community to grow up in. I just was impressed by our…

— Donald Wuerl

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

— Jesse Jackson

I am not a priest, I am not an imam, I am not a rabbi and I am implementing the French laws…

— Jacques Myard

Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same…

— Martin Luther

I've had such extremes in my life. From being this kind of wild kid, to one year studying to be a Franciscan…

— Tom Cruise

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

— Anonymous

You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the…

— Hermann Hesse

My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any…

— Rajneesh

“Priests come to my home beside the northern sea where they find an old man, and they tell me I am just…

— Bernard Cornwell

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest…

— Victor Hugo

In the immense cathedral which is the universe of God, each person, whether scholar or manual laborer, is called to act as…

— Paul Evdokimov

[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“He advocated that all who follow Jesus are priests, not just the official clergy. Much of what he said made sense, as…

— David Holdsworth

And there is my payment the rubies in your cheeks. Are you properly scandalized by your wicked behavior? If you were Catholic,…

— Jeaniene Frost

The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural…

— Thomas Paine

“When I was a child, I always hated being used in my father's sermons, shrunk to a symbol to illustrate some larger…

— Patricia Lockwood

I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not…

— Chuck Klosterman

“The Church demands of its priests exclusive dedication, a 24/7 routine that protects the peace of their souls from conjugal strife and…

— Eduardo Galeano

According to the oral tradition of Witches, we were once the priests and priestesses of a peasant Pagan religion. Members of this…

— Raven Grimassi

We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our…

— Thomas Jefferson

We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die…

— Eric Hoffer

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

— Mike Krzyzewski

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

— Oscar Wilde

I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.

— Wilson Mizner

The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We have to be evangelists for music. We couldn't just be high priests of music.

— Simon Rattle

He was a hot, hot former priest and she wanted to pull a Thorn Birds on his ass.

— Marjorie M. Liu

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

— Bill Gaede

I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.

— Peter Jurasik