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
Who Wrote These Priest Quotes
306 authors contributed a total of 425 Priest Quotes, led by these top contributors: