Priest Quotes - page 2

If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest. (G. I. Gurdjieff)
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. View quote
Pope Benedict XVI
Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin. View quote
Alejandro Jodorowsky
It is confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. View quote
Oscar Wilde
If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop. View quote
Glenn Beck
Happy (if mortals can be) is the man, Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span: Reason, to its possessor a sure guide, Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side. View quote
Thomas Chatterton
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. View quote
William Blake
The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged in a delicate interplay and exchange with the moon; and it is this of which the poet sings. View quote
Yasunari Kawabata
Seeing the moon, he becomes the moon, the moon seen by him becomes him. He sinks into nature, becomes one with nature. The light of the "clear heart" of the priest, seated in the meditation hall in the darkness before the dawn, becomes for the dawn moon its own light. View quote
Yasunari Kawabata
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest. View quote
Karl Kraus
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest. (Erma Bombeck)
Every cradle asks us, "Whence?" and every coffin, "Whither?" The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill and to create. Other men are taxable and exploitable, made for the stable, that is to say, to exercise so called professions. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
The organizer who creates roles, who creates the holes that will force the pegs to their shape, is a prime creator of personality itself. When we ask of a man, "What is he?" the answer is usually given in terms of his major role, job, or position in society; he is the place that he fills, a painter, a priest, a politician, a criminal. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the enemy not as a fissure in the will but as a dead fetus in the specimen jar of the unconscious. My attention was being paternally led away from the excruciating present to the happy, healthy future that would be enabled by an analysis of the sick past, as though the priest had nothing to do but study old books and make bright forecasts, the present not worthy of notice. View quote
Edmund White
I got a imam, I got a rabbi, I got a priest, I got a reverend - I got 'em all. But I don't want to be holier-than-thou. I want to help everybody and still get some (sex). View quote
Mike Tyson
The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. View quote
John Milton
New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large. View quote
John Milton
I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. View quote
Albert Einstein
The Priest is the common father, as it were, of all the world; it is proper therefore that he should care for all, even as God, Whom he serves. View quote
John Chrysostom
Formerly a lamb was offered, a calf was offered. Christ is offered today...and he offers himself as priest in order that he may remit our sins: here in image, there in truth where, as our advocate, he intercedes for us before the Father. (Ambrose)
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. View quote
Neal Shusterman
In the immense cathedral which is the universe of God, each person, whether scholar or manual laborer, is called to act as the priest of his whole life--to take all that is human, and to turn it into an offering and a hymn of glory. View quote
Paul Evdokimov
Aimee-"If someone's possessed by a demon, how do you get the demon out?" Xedrix-"Call a priest. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'll wait out here until the two of you are finished. Just call out if you need anything. Like a priest, cop, or lion tamer. (Aimee) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon