Priests Quotes

634 Priests quotes by 441 unique authors

What are the two of you whispering about?” Alaric demanded irritably. She glanced over to see the warrior watching her, his eyes narrow with suspicion.… — Maya Banks
There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest. — Victor Hugo
Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came… — Khalil Gibran
No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules… — Gloria Steinem
There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight. — Unknown Author
But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of possessiveness, full of… — Rajneesh
An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the… — Annie Dillard
The poet is the priest of the invisible. — Wallace Stevens
I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Catholic dioceses typically spent hundreds of thousands of dollars recklessly, then filed for bankruptcy. The goal was to avoid the money going to the hands… — Dan Rather
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery… — Bertrand Russell
A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He… — H.G. Wells
So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be… — Friedrich Nietzsche
An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize… — Alec Guinness
[The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness. — Michael Warner
Dogmatic religion has been used to fantastic effect over thousands of years to fuel and exploit emotions like fear and guilt, and the feeling of… — David Icke
I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am… — Garry Wills
Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers. — Janine di Giovanni
The highest service that men may attain to on earth is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore,… — John Wycliffe
What cursed spirit of falsehood moveth priests to close themselves within stone walls for all their life, since Christ commanded all his apostles and priests… — John Wycliffe
You were part of a parish life. It was a great community to grow up in. I just was impressed by our parish priests. After… — Donald Wuerl
In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. — Alejandro Jodorowsky
The priests say the new dawn will be like the rain that fertilizes the soil before we begin to plant our corn. It will renew… — Rigoberta Menchu

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