Priest Quotes

Civilization will not attain perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. (Émile Zola)
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. View quote
Denis Diderot
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. View quote
Denis Diderot
There exist only three respectable beings the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
When you're a priest, people tend to see the robe rather than the man. View quote
Scott Lynch
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. View quote
Henry Adams
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest. View quote
Victor Hugo
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling. View quote
Paul Arden
Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it. (Andrew Greeley)
I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain. View quote
Conrad Veidt
I think we all appreciate it now just how lucky we are to be in a band like Judas Priest. View quote
Glenn Tipton
My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from. View quote
Wyclef Jean
I couldn't understand why God had made the world at all...' I asked my bishop; he didn't know. He said that he didn't think the point arose as far as my practical duties as a parish priest were concerned.. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT. View quote
Frank Zappa
A well proportioned mind is one which shows no particular bias one of which we may safely say that it will never cause its owner to be confined as a madman, tortured as a heretic, or crucified as a blasphemer. Also, on the other hand, that it will never cause him to be applauded as a prophet, revered as a priest, or exalted as a king. Its usual blessings are happiness and mediocrity. View quote
Thomas Hardy
In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest;-guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him. View quote
Ernest Renan
The poet is the priest of the invisible. View quote
Wallace Stevens
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 Wycliffe)
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. View quote
John Ruskin
Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost merciless God; no human agency can help him; his church is a means to political and social organization rather than a bridge to deity, for no priest can have greater knowledge of the divine way than he himself; no friend can console him - in fact, he should distrust all men; in the same fashion, Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's. View quote
Lionel Trilling
For everyone, whatever his state - single, married, widowed or priest - chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love. View quote
Josemaría Escrivá
Then I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing, because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings. View quote
Elvis Costello