Priests Quotes - Page 19

• The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

  George Meredith

  Country, Fighting, Men

  George Meredith, William Maxse Meredith (1912). “1844-1881”

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• BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Etna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Block, Wine, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.26, University of Georgia Press

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• To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi.

  Ed Benguiat

  Jobs, Design, Way

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• The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the mullah, the rabbi, or whoever, to be responsible for your acts. In fact, you are the only one who is responsible.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Truth, Catholic

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• It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles; and it is honorable for us to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Men, Independence

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Philosopher, Les Miserable

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.2609, Delphi Classics

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• The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Doctors, Gold, Cold

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• A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts you: God as a high school principal in a gray suit who never remembered your name but is always leafing unhappily through your files.

  Anne Lamott

  God, Love You, School

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• In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Men, Religion

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1964). “Complete Works: The First Complete and Authorised English Translation”

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• The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Men, Reflection

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• In the spiritual reality of the church, neither Marcel Lefebvre, nor his bishops and priests, nor the people who frequent the SSPX chapels suffered or suffer excommunication. I believe history will record that the intent to impose such an excommunication was invalid and illicit.

  Malachi Martin

  Spiritual, Believe, Reality

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• To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in all its aspects, of work, and of play, in such a way that it may come to be what it was created to be, that which praises its maker by becoming perfect in its own way. In all this, there is room for both usefulness and beauty to take their due place, but differently according to differences of activity and object.

  Colin Gunton

  Play, Differences, Perfect

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• I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

  Federico Fellini

  Moral, Censorship, Judgment

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• There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of the little ones. Let them sleep, then, in the arms of their nurses, the priests, and both be forgotten together.

  Thomas Paine

  Book, Sleep, Nurse

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.123

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• I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Duke of Disobedience, Leader of the Freeloaders, Kaiser of Apostasy, Archbishop of Anarchy, the Big Cheese. Horrible titles any way you want to look at it. All code words for Outlaw.

  Bob Dylan

  Sick, Leader, Want

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• In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Italian, Museums

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal,
  and you are your own temple
  and your own priest.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Believe, Goal, Temples

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

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Temples

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.4, Penguin

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• The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It deter- mines what people will talk and think about-an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.

  Theodore White

  Party, Thinking, Tyrants

  Theodore Harold White (1973). “The making of the President, 1972”, Scribner

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

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Temples, Orthodox, Eastern

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• 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.

  Clayton Christensen

  Christian, Views, Care

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• In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

  Phil Donahue

  Boys, Two, Parent

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

  Andrew Greeley

  Men, Catholic, Upset

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• If, as we have said, we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory of Peter and Paul, the supreme leaders of the pre-eminent company of the apostles? They are the fathers and guides of all Christians: apostles, martyrs, holy ascetics, priests, hierarchs, pastors and teachers.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Song, Teacher

  "The homilies".

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• Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time.

  Maria Monk

  Night, Seminary, Day And Night

  Maria MONK (1836). “Awful Disclosures ... of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal. Revised with an appendix, etc”, p.148

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