Priests Quotes

634 Priests quotes by 441 unique authors

The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the… — Tom Chatfield
I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well… — B.F. Skinner
We look to our pastors and priests and rabbis and counselors of all kinds to testify of the enduring principles upon which our society is… — Mitt Romney
Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries. — Tom Paulin
As scientists have discovered - or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified - we now live in the age of the Anthropocene.… — Kate Bernheimer
The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and… — Giles Gilbert Scott
What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men… — William P. Leahy
Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would… — Maria Monk
That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never… — Peter Jurasik
If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches? — Lemuel K. Washburn
Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world. — Gerhard Richter
By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages of traditional texts - the Bible, the… — Frank Tipler
In 1975, no State or Church guidelines existed in the Republic of Ireland to assist those responding to an allegation of abuse against a minor.… — Sean Brady
Actors yearn for the perfect director, athletes for the perfect coach, priests for the perfect pope, presidents for the perfect historian. Writers hunger for the… — Thomas Fleming
But this is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers have known this from the day they read their first… — Thomas Fleming
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn. — Bible
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the… — Bible
Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy… — Bible
BAAL, n. An old deity formerly much worshiped under various names. As Baal he was popular with the Phoenicians; as Belus or Bel he had… — Ambrose Bierce
How can such a man be chased away in a world full of churches, where there are clans and clans, groups and groups of priests,… — Sorin Cerin
There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well as Christians… — Thomas Paine
The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings… — John Adams
Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism — John Haynes Holmes
People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes… — Bill Hicks
Immersion of some priests in sexual abuse of children gives strong impression that this practice is a typical religious feat. — Mohammad MUSTAFA

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