Priests Quotes - Page 14

• The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the god was present and spoke.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Men, Origin Of Life, Ideas

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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• Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

  Virginia Woolf

  Best Friend, Friendship, Real Friends

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.228, Collector's Library

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• [Grandfather] would manufacture funnies with Grandmother before she died about how he was in love with other women who were not her. She knew it was only funnies because she would laugh in volumes. 'Anna,' he would say, 'I am going to marry that one with the pink hat.' And she would say, 'To whom are you going to marry her?' And he would say, 'To me.' I would laugh very much in the back seat, and she would say to him, 'But you are no priest.' And he would say, 'I am today.' And she would say, 'Today you believe in God?' And he would say, 'Today I believe in love.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Believe, Grandmother, Laughing

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• The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

  Victor Hugo

  Charity, Poverty, Firsts

  "Les Misérables: Fantine".

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• Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe." Salon April 25, 2003

  Anne Lamott

  Feet, April, Breathe

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• History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Ignorance

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.193, Cambridge University Press

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• Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents--they were so upset and reproachful...I felt as if something they all passionately believed in depended on me carrying on with something I didn't.

  Philip Pullman

  Mother, Parent, Upset

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• What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Honest, Ends

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Apr 17, 2016

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• I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said that you can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.)

  Anne Lamott

  Hate, Writing, Thinking

  "Bird by Bird". Book by Anne Lamott, 1994.

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• My priest tells me i should not date a mormon but im just too in love with you that i'm willing to take risks

  Ellen Hopkins

  Love You, Risk, Should

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• Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Church, Locks, Institutions

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• The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it was the Word of God. Those who most believe it are those who know least about it, and priests always take care to keep the inconsistent and contradictory parts out of sight.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Sight, Bears

  Thomas Paine (1859). “The Theological Works ...: The Most Complete Ed. Ever Pub”, p.340

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• Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.

  Iain Pears

  Thinking, People, Ears

  Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.72, Penguin

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• The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's lesson: beware love, especially with the wrong man.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Grandmother, Men, Lessons

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• 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Lying, June

  Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., July 2, 1945.

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• Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Girl, Needs, Approval

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.177, Penguin

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• Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.

  Ted Dekker

  Giving Up, Perfect, Chocolate

  Ted Dekker (2011). “The Priest's Graveyard”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.

  Ann Patchett

  Giving, Looks, Existence

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• I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Flower, Garden

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.26, Univ of California Press

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• Faith is for the future. Faith builds on the past but never longs to stay there. Faith trusts that God has great things in store for each of us and that Christ truly is the “high priest of good things to come” (Hebrews 9:11).

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Past, Hebrew, Christ

  "The Best Is Yet to Be" by Jeffrey R. Holland, www.lds.org. January 2010.

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• A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

  Victor Hugo

  Doctors, Doors, Should

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Les Misérables”, Random House LLC

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• I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  People, Age, Alive

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “THE BEST OF H. P. LOVECRAFT (Occult & Supernatural Series): Horror Classics: The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, At the Mountains of Madness, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Outsider, In the Vault, The Thing on the Doorstepäó_”, p.222, e-artnow

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Play, Enough, Virgins

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love.

  Graham Greene

  Running, Hate, Heart

  "The Collected Edition: The power and the glory".

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• Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Done, Humans, Human Thought

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2161, Library of Alexandria

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