Application Quote by Kathleen Parker

The priest invents and encourages every kind of suffering and distress so that man may not have the opportunity to become scientific, which requires…

— Robert Sheaffer

“We Catholics have not only to do our best to keep down our own warring passions and live decent lives, which will often be…

— Ronald A. Knox

“The Church does not depend on power, social prestige, rhetorical manipulation, or human-designed programs. All it has are the Word and Sacraments, which, though…

— Gene Edward Veith Jr

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration…

— Arthur Middleton

“Priests confine broad truths into narrow doctrines, because more rules mean that they have more power. Priests mistake their own prejudice for conscience and…

— Mercedes Lackey

Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.

— Lady Violet

“There are two main rules when dealing with priests: 1. Do nothing to them. 2. Do not trust them. - Then it's easy with them.”

— Karel Havlíček Borovský

“The priest is immense because he makes others believe in a heap of weird things. The Church wanting to do everything and be everything:…

— Charles Baudelaire

Principles are what people have instead of God.

— Alexander Schmemann

“We have no better materials to compound the priesthood of, than the mass of mankind, which corrupted as it is, those who receive orders…

— Jonathan Swift

[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

— David Hume

As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his…

— Arthur Middleton