Priests Quotes

634 Priests quotes by 441 unique authors

From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical… — Kenneth R. Miller
I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my… — Maria Monk
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have… — Hans Kung
So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest.… — Thomas Keneally
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines of reason and… — Thomas Jefferson
What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the… — David Levithan
The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits? — Tanith Lee
If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just… — Joanne Harris
Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests. — Cheech Marin
Some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar. — Rafael Benitez
Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred book. The state… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign. — John O'Donohue
Everyone works in the service of man. We doctors work directly on man himself... The great mystery of man is Jesus: 'He who visits a… — Gianna Beretta Molla
Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no… — Rajneesh
Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is… — John Henry Newman
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear… — Honore de Balzac
We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word… — Eric Hoffer
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew… — Ambrose Bierce
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents.… — Ambrose Bierce

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