Priests Quotes

634 Priests quotes by 441 unique authors

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. — Thomas Paine
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. — Thomas Paine
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner… — Pope John Paul II
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest… — Pope John Paul II
I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the 'circle the wagons' mentality revictimized the innocent, coddled… — Christine Pelosi
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of… — John Polkinghorne
I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had a big linen-supply… — John C. Reilly
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an… — John Ruskin
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
What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are… — Charlie Sheen
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
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave… — Mary Wollstonecraft
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

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