Priests Quotes - Page 12

• Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Soldier, Joints

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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  A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Half, Positive Atheism

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.242, Knopf

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• But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Church, Compass

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “The Devils of Loudun”, p.13, HarperCollins

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• Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you; say to the priests that you know God better than all of them together do, and that between God and His law you have no need of any intermediary. The people will understand you, and repeat with you: We believe in God the Father, who is Intelligence and Love, Creator and Teacher of Humanity. And in this saying you and the People will conquer.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Love, Country, Teacher

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Kings, War, Heaven

  "Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

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• I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Children, Middle Child, Way

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• It was peace. Peace is when you would shake the hands of the people around you. And you knew peace was coming because the priest would say it five times rapid fire. He'd go, “My peace I leave, my peace I give to you. While we ate Reese's Pieces with the Lord. And I have a piece of lint in my peaceful eye"!

  Dane Cook

  Eye, Fire, Hands

  "Comedy Central Presents (TV Series)". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests

  Max von Sydow

  Hollywood, Villain, Casts

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• You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.

  Walter Matthau

  Father, Thinking, Catholic

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• I am a reformed Taoist, part-time Buddhist, Hindu, animist, pagan, Jewish mystic, and Christian. I always got along great with priests and rabbis and mullahs and gurus, even though I spend most of my life constructively criticizing them.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Christian, Buddhist, Pagan

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• I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.' Now I know that both faith and intellect are components of religious belief.

  Don Adams

  Religious, Belief, Remember

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• I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.

  Peter Jurasik

  Ideas, Catholic, Becoming

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 18, 2002.

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• Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.

  Patricia Heaton

  Christian, Kindness, Trying

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• I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

  Broderick Crawford

  Trouble, Mass, Ask Me

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• Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course.

  Charlton Heston

  Silly, Evil, Catholic

  Interview with Ken Masugi and Colleen Ryor, ashbrook.org. October 6, 1995.

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• Nowas you all know, this week, Pope Benedict told Vatican Radio—you know, Vatican Radio, playing the hits from the 8th century, 9th century and today—Benedict told them he was going to resign because the Church needs a fresh, young face, somewhere other than a priest's lap.

  Bill Maher

  Church, Needs, Lap

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• With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've gotta face that was meant for a mug shot and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years. If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop, or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.

  M. C. Gainey

  Cowboy, Past, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Feet, Air, Honest

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• 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.

  Ernest Renan

  Jesus, Humanity, Enemy

  Ernest Renan (1864). “The Life of Jesus”, p.90

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• If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Fear, Believe

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• It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the Drowned Cities, shipping marble and steel and copper and getting paid Red Chinese for every kilo. We'd be rich and they'd be dead, if there was such a thing as the Scavenge God, or his scales. And that goes double for the Deepwater priests. They're all full of it. Nothing balances out.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Boys, Cities, Soldier

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• As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present.

  Martin Chemnitz

  Christian, Baptism, Luther

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• Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

  Roger Mahony

  Birthday, Law, Guilt

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• Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.

  John of Salisbury

  Eye, Might, Cloaks

  John (of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres) (1963). “The statesman's book of John of Salisbury: being the fourth, fifth, and sixth books, and selections from the seventh and eighth books, of the Policraticus”

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• I don't think I'm going to be priest material.

  Lionel Richie

  Thinking, Materials

  "Lionel Richie: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 22, 2012.

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