Priests Quotes

Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday.

All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.

When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with the Emperor even if he demands this.

Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

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.

Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.

The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?

Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.

you [priests] are called 'another Christ.'

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

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

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

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

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.

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

The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

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

I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like...eternal hell.

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

Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests.

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.

I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

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

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones

We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it.

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!

Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.

To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics.

I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

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

I have a high priest in heaven

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

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

I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?