Priests Quotes · Page 7

Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.

— Robert Browning

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

— Robert Pollok

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

— Robert Kilroy-Silk

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

— Martin Luther

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

— Johnny Vegas

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

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

— Wendelin Van Draanen

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

— Otto von Bismarck

[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

— David Hume

Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

— Anonymous

We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter… A priest-ridden Godforsaken…

— James Joyce

If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“But nature will smile though priests may frown, and next day the sun shone brightly, and on the next, and the next…

— Charles Dickens

One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

— Alexander Pope

Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a…

— Marquis de Sade

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them;…

— Thomas Jefferson

The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at…

— Judy Grahn

The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing…

— Tom Chatfield

Atheists blame religion when priests do wrong. Anything can be misused, whether it is nuclear power or a matchstick. So, how can…

— Asghar Ali Engineer

Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of…

— Sean O'Casey

Another similarity of Brexit and Trump's campaigns was an attack on so-called elites. This is not so much a failure of capitalism…

— Mariana Mazzucato

Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and…

— Keith O'Brien

One thing is certain: the time will come when the opinions of priests and doctors must give way to the science of…

— Phineas Quimby

“There exists indeed an opposition to it [ building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college ] by the friends of William and Mary,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty…

— Eric Foner

I don't want to preach, but I would like to see metal become more of a united thing. I'm tired of people…

— Chuck Schuldiner

To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in…

— Colin Gunton

I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not…

— Anne Lamott

This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense…

— Erwin Schrodinger

How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice:…

— Graham Greene

A man in love ... is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to…

— Anne Desclos

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

— Broderick Crawford

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches? Lemuel K

— Lemuel K Washburn

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

— Amit Kalantri

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

— Albert Einstein

A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.

— H. L. Mencken

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

— Anonymous

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

— Oscar Niemeyer

by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

— Victor Hugo