quotes about Priests
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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
-- Alfred de Musset -
Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.
-- Aristotle Onassis -
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The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.
-- Bill Gaede -
Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.
-- Bill Hicks -
Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult.
-- Bob Barton -
Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.
-- Brice MardenSource : Brice Marden (1978). “Brice Marden: Recent Paintings and Drawings : [catalogue of an Exhibition], September 23-21 October 1978, The Pace Gallery, New York”
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I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.
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The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.
-- Colin Quinn -
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.
-- Elizabeth Berg -
Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.
-- Erich Segal -
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I can’t tell by looking in your eyes whether you’re a priest or a crook.
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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
-- G. I. Gurdjieff -
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.
-- G. M. TrevelyanSource : G.M. Trevelyan (1949). “CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS”
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The priest is the personification of falsehood.
-- Giuseppe Garibaldi -
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To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest
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I swear by the mighty power of Amon-Ra, whose anger can shatter the world, and by the dread power of Set, that I will never betray my trust as High Priest of Karnak.
-- Griffin Jay -
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
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The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.
-- Honore de Balzac -
When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
-- Ian HartSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.
-- James MartineauSource : James Martineau (1890). “Endeavors After the Christian Life: Discourses”
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I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest.
-- Jean Meslier -
If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.
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Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.
-- John Haynes Holmes -
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Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.
-- John Hillaby -
Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest, which "station in life" each had to leave, with brief notice.
-- John Ruskin -
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.
-- John WycliffeSource : "Typical English Churchmen". Book by John Neville Figgis, p. 15, 1909.
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Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!
-- Johnny Vegas -
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
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.
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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.
-- Lerone Bennett, Jr. -
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I don't think I'm going to be priest material.
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.
-- Maria MonkSource : Maria Monk, Theodore Dwight, John Jay Slocum, William K. Hoyte (1836). “Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal”, p.80, New York : Howe & Bates
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I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.
-- Martin Scorsese -
In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests
-- Max von Sydow -
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Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
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.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll -
A country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.
-- Robert Kilroy-Silk -
Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.
-- Rocco Buttiglione -
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You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.
-- Ryan StilesSource : "Whose Line is it Anyway?" with Drew Carey (Episode 201), www.oocities.org. October 7, 1999.
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Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.
-- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -
Whoever truly worships the gods loves their priests.
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Great improvisers are like priests... they are thinking only of their God
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It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.
-- Stephen Vincent Benet -
The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?
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Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.
-- Thomas Paine -
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Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.
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A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
-- Victor Hugo -
The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.
-- Vladimir Zhirinovsky -
The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
-- Walter M. Miller, Jr. -
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It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.
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Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.
-- Wes BentleySource : "There Be Dragons Review, and Interview With Wes Bentley". Interview with Richard Karpala, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2011.
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I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.
-- Wilson Mizner -
I am not a priest, I am not an imam, I am not a rabbi and I am implementing the French laws on every French citizen.
-- Jacques MyardSource : "Insight, Banning the Burqa". www.sbs.com.au.
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I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.
-- Kurt Braunohler -
Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.
-- Rodger Kamenetz -
Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.
-- Alfonso X of Castile -
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[Ireland is a] country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.
-- Robert Kilroy-SilkSource : The Daily Express, November 09, 2002.
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But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.
-- Kathleen Parker -
The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.
-- Leopold Sedar Senghor