Priests Quotes - Page 30

• I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Stoves

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• Jesus ... said - long before his followers had established churches and a priesthood - 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.' This Way is the life of the Spirit. To follow it entails no necessity for places (all places are holy ground), no priesthood, since every man becomes a priest unto God.

  Esme Wynne-Tyson

  Jesus, Men, Holy Ground

  Esme Wynne Tyson (1949). “The Unity of Being”

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• My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

  Rajneesh

  Integrity, Book, People

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• We persevere because we are preserved by our High Priest's intercession.

  R. C. Sproul

  Persevere, Intercession

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• The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming their minds and manners aright; they use all possible methods to infuse, very early, into the tender and flexible minds of children, such opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their country, for when deep impressions of these things are made at that age, they follow men through the whole course of their lives, and conduce much to preserve the peace of the government, which suffers by nothing more than by vices that rise out of ill opinions.

  Thomas More

  Country, Children, Men

  Thomas More (2010). “Utopia”, p.121, Bibliolis Books

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• Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Would Be

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• Religion has been a powerful weapon in the hands of governments, in the hands of priests, in the hands of kings who have used it as a weapon to keep down the populace. It is a wonderful way of disciplining people and making them do what you want, to tell them that if they don't do what you want they will, for example, go to Hell.

  Richard Dawkins

  Kings, Powerful, Government

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". "Science Show" with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.

  Eddie Trunk

  Kissing, Rocks, Iron

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• But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time,
  But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue,
  But Thee, O man's best Man, O love's best Love,
  O perfect life in perfect labor writ,
  O all men's Comrade, Servant, King, or Priest, --
  What IF or YET, what mole, what flaw, what lapse,
  What least defect or shadow of defect,
  What rumor, tattled by an enemy,
  Of inference loose, what lack of grace
  Even in torture's grasp, or sleep's, or death's --
  Oh, what amiss may I forgive in Thee,
  Jesus, good Paragon, Thou Crystal Christ?

  Sidney Lanier

  Best Love, Jesus, Kings

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.32, University of Georgia Press

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• The devil made you a slave. Your waitin' for the devil to come from the ground. Take a look around. Just look at the cross that the priest is holdin'. A beast, in sheep's clothin'. You are the prince of darkness. Hell born, demonic.

  Ice Cube

  Sheep, Darkness, Devil

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

  George Lopez

  Funny, Humor, Sunday

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• I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute ... it may be the most important contribution that we can make.

  Steven Weinberg

  Long, Important, Atheism

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• I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Lying, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816”, p.507, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended by their priests, and sometimes by a hen-pecked husband, they pour forth the effusions of their love to Jesus, in terms as amatory and carnal, as their modesty would permit them to use a mere earthly lover.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Prayer, Husband

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.271, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good to the one good of his arcanum - the vague body of mysteries that he calls the truth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sacrifice, Men, Atheism

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• My feeling is that in the purest form, an actor is a service to the people. It's democratic in its purest form. That's what an actor is. If he or she isn't that, then there is no purpose in doing it. They're like priests.

  Scott Cohen

  People, Feelings, Purpose

  Source: twoaspirinsandacomedy.com

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• I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not possible to reach the hearts of the congregants without a bit of poetry and storytelling.

  Uwem Akpan

  Jesus, Powerful, Believe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Journey, Focus

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research.

  George Coyne

  Religious, Research, Enriching Experience

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car.

  Pope Francis

  Grieving, Car, Nun

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Queens, Spring

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [265]

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• The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Names, Poetry, Eras

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.244, Xist Publishing

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• While we destroyed the Centre Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of respectable people we have restored their faith in their religion and in their priests. The union of the Evangelical Church in a single Church for the whole Reich, the Concordat with the Catholic Church, these are but milestones on the road which leads to the establishment of a useful relation and a useful co operation between the Reich and the two Confessions.

  Adolf Hitler

  Party, Two, People

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

  Voltaire

  Silly, Religion, Credulity

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• No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on, the altar.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Prayer, Heart, Sacrifice

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