Priests Quotes
634 quotes by 441 authors
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Regarding the accusations of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, deplorable and disgusting as those abuses are, they are not so harmful to the…
— Richard Dawkins
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I got a imam, I got a rabbi, I got a priest, I got a reverend — I got 'em all. But I don't want…
— Mike Tyson
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The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged…
— Yasunari Kawabata
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How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been…
— Baron d'Holbach
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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
— Tanith Lee
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In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility…
— Hector Berlioz
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Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town,…
— John Wilmot
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If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question…
— Gerald Holton
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If some day they take the radio station away from us, if they close down our newspaper, if they don’t let us speak, if they…
— Oscar Romero
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Jesus our Lord is Prophet, Priest, and King. The concept is not new, yet many preachers never preach it, and many congregations never hear it.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind
— Max Eastman
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Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without…
— Richard Bach
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For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the infallibility of the…
— Robert S. Mendelsohn
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The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not…
— John Calvin
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Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated, and quite on…
— Erving Goffman
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I have a high priest in heaven
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So…
— Peter L. Berger
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If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we'd be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the…
— Bill Hybels
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In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest…
— Jeremy Bentham
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