Priest Quotes

425 Priest quotes by 301 unique authors

The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to… — Arthur Middleton
There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather… — Arthur Middleton
O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers, carries it to… — Saint Francis de Sales
When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to… — Saint Francis de Sales
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. — William Osler
God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the… — John Greenleaf Whittier
A priest in New York City was arrested on gun possession. These days, you better be happy that the bulge in his pocket is a… — David Letterman
As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the… — Bob Gunton
The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse. — H. L. Mencken
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic stations in life… — Henry Adams
The priest invents and encourages every kind of suffering and distress so that man may not have the opportunity to become scientific, which requires a… — Robert Sheaffer
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was… — John Dryden
I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was… — Henry Louis Gates
If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest. — G I Gurdjieff
A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural. — Park Chan-wook
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. — Denis Diderot
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. — Denis Diderot
His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. — Denis Diderot
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes… — John Dryden
I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from… — Gloria Estefan
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. — Gustave Flaubert
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. — Thomas Jefferson
The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one. — Jesse Jackson
My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from. — Wyclef Jean

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