Priest Quotes

425 quotes by 306 authors

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest.… — Rowan Atkinson
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. — Henry Adams
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. — Charles Baudelaire
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. — Charles Baudelaire
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession… — Jean Baudrillard
If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop. — Glenn Beck
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. — Pope Benedict XVI
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest. — Erma Bombeck
I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster. — Henry David Thoreau
This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the… — Mark Helprin
I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest up to talk… — Rodney Dangerfield
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you,… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. — William Blake
I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as taking money from… — Lenny Bruce
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture,… — Rajneesh
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in… — Thomas Jefferson
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a… — Robert Green Ingersoll
[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 still say perhaps,… — Henri Frederic Amiel

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