Priest Quotes

425 Priest quotes by 301 unique authors

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
. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a… — Geoffrey Chaucer
[Grandfather] would manufacture funnies with Grandmother before she died about how he was in love with other women who were not her. She knew it… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty. — Victor Hugo
Anne Lamottâ€™s priest friend Tom, how to get through: "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe."… — Anne Lamott
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their… — Thomas Jefferson

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