Priests Quotes

634 Priests quotes by 441 unique authors

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
Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move… — Willard Fiske
In early Judaism, the priesthood was maintained within various families and passed down from father to son, thus necessitating marriage. But this is the old… — Michael Coren
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
It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I… — Bill Vaughan
In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches,… — Pope Francis
The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls,… — Pope Francis
In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These… — Pope Francis
When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of… — Pope Francis
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
It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people… — Glenn Danzig
I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me.… — Jonathan Davis
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing… — Diogenes
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
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as… — Desiderius Erasmus
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
I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. — Gustave Flaubert
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. — Gustave Flaubert

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