Priests Quotes
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis.
Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.
As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.
I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.
Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .
Catholic dioceses typically spent hundreds of thousands of dollars recklessly, then filed for bankruptcy. The goal was to avoid the money going to the hands of victims of predator priests.
I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.
Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.
What I hated most was seeing those priests and brothers getting so much pleasure out of inflicting pain. I wondered what was wrong with them.
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
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.
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind
The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.
Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
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.
But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
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.
The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.
How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.
But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.
The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.
If all the priests go we all want to be married and the pope goes all priests should be married than I say go for it.
It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.
Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time.
Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.
If a Hindu wants to find the way to God, he has the right to go to any priest, nun or any other person.
No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.
He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
I tell priests to flee from clericalism because clericalism distances people. May they flee from clericalism and I add: it's a plague in the Church.
For example, this, what I said about the bishops who move pedophile priests, the best thing they can do is resign. This isn't a dogmatic thing, but this is what I think.
The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
