Parish Priest Quotes

• Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

  John Polkinghorne

  Years, Class, Village

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• I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

  Martin Scorsese

  Ordinary, Priests, Wanted

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• When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Love You, Holy Eucharist

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• Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.

  Denis McDonough

  Sunday, Community, Afternoon

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• When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now. This is why you should ask your parish priest to have perpetual adoration in your parish. I beg the Blessed Mother to touch the hearts of all parish priests that they may have perpetual Eucharistic adoration in their parishes, and that it may spread throughout the entire world

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Jesus, Blessed

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• O my dear parishioners, let us endeavor to get to heaven! There we shall see God. How happy we shall feel! If the parish is converted we shall go there in procession with the parish priest at the head. . . We must get to heaven! What a pity it would be if some of you were to find yourselves on the other side!

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Heaven, Would Be, Sides

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• As a parish priest of the Church Of England I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.

  Alan Green

  Christian, White, People

  "An Ecumenical Chatter: When Rev Robert Hood Met Fr Alan Green". Interview with Luke Turner, thequietus.com. June 6, 2016.

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• When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.

  Liam O'Flaherty

  Men, People, Wife

  'The Mermaid'.

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• Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

  George Santayana

  Long, Poetry, Ancient

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.58, MIT Press

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

  Michael D. Higgins

  Editors, People, Newspapers

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• But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!

  John Heywood

  Clerks, Forget, Priests

  John Heywood (1908). “Two Tudor "shrew" Plays - (1) John John the Husband, Tib His Wife, and Sir John the Priest, by John Heywood (c1533): And (2) Tom Tiler and His Wife, Anonymous (c1551)”

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