Adapted Quote by Samuel Butler

Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do it, you…

— Pope Francis

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

— Thomas Paine

There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.

— Peter Hollingworth

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall…

— Walt Whitman

By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country…

— William P. Leahy

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

— Voltaire

I've twice been on the point of giving up my performing career to train for the priesthood.

— Stephen Hough

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

— Ian Hart

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

— Robert Genn

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

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

— John Haynes Holmes