Priests Quotes

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.

Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.

Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom have a vested interest in [him] and who are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him.

The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.

Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.

If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.

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 allegory.

The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

It is time for pastors, priests and all true believers to come out of the closet and stand for truth against the flood of evil.

I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest.

[Ireland is a] country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.

All Muslims stand before God and they are their own priests.

It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

God can be good and terrible-not in succession-but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and him; we approach him through the mediating priest and attenuate and enclose him through the sacraments. It is for our own safety: to trap him within confines which render him safe.

Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.

Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.

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

you [priests] are called 'another Christ.'

The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.

Great improvisers are like priests... they are thinking only of their God

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species.

I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.

I have a high priest in heaven

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

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

I sort of think of myself as part priest, part clown.

Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

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

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

I shall always be a priest of love.