Priest Quotes

425 Priest quotes by 301 unique authors

No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. — John Milton
If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I… — Federico Fellini
It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehensibility of that… — Arthur Middleton
A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart in which people… — Arthur Middleton
The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word and Sacrament that… — Arthur Middleton
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

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301 authors contributed a total of 425 Priest Quotes, led by these top contributors: