Priest Quotes

425 Priest quotes by 301 unique authors

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest. — Mike Krzyzewski
I shall always be a priest of love. — D. H. Lawrence
I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in… — James McAvoy
Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin. — Aristotle Onassis
I think you've got good people and bad people in everything you do. If you start making a big deal of it, then it's a… — Master P
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner… — Pope John Paul II
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of… — John Polkinghorne
I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had a big linen-supply… — John C. Reilly
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an… — John Ruskin
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest. — Martin Scorsese
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had… — Bruce Springsteen
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest. — Rabindranath Tagore
I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but… — Johnny Vegas
Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric! — Johnny Vegas
Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We… — Antonio Villaraigosa
The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the… — George Edward Woodberry
I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I… — Colm Toibin
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses… — Thomas Jefferson
[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life. — James Joyce
There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country,… — Betty Smith
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that… — Voltaire

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