Priests Quotes - Page 36

• The high priests and priestesses taught the children the secret meditation techniques, along with methods and ways of living that would increase their pranic levels and help them develop their psychic skills.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Psychics, Skills

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• For example, this, what I said about the bishops who move pedophile priests, the best thing they can do is resign. This isn't a dogmatic thing, but this is what I think.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Thinking, Example

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• Not so much anymore but some years ago in my homeland there was a habit, something called 'casamiento de apuro,' a marriage in haste because the baby is coming and to cover socially the honor of the family. There, they weren't free and it happened many times this marriage is null. As a bishop I forbade my priests to do this.

  Pope Francis

  Baby, Years, Honor

  "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight interview from Mexico to Rome". www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I asked [Guadalupe] for the world, for peace, so many things. I asked forgiveness, I asked that the Church grows healthy, I asked for the Mexican people. And another thing I asked a lot for: that priests be true priests, and sisters true sisters, and bishops true bishops. As the Lord wants.

  Pope Francis

  People, Mexican, Healthy

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• In Islam, there is no priesthood and each person stands before God, like in the daily prayers, without an intermediary. That's in contrast to Christianity, where during the Eucharist, a priest has to officiate and the priest functions as a link - at least in Catholic Christianity - between the laity and God.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Prayer, Catholic, Islam

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Father, Philosophy, Doubt

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• Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?

  Charles Dickens

  Inspiration, Heart, Humility

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.17059, Delphi Classics

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• Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

  Honore de Balzac

  Gowns, Never Quit, Magistrates

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• The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.

  Honore de Balzac

  Eye, Artist, Animal

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• According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Sheep, Sea

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• The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Greatness, Men, Humanity

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1891). “Critical and literary”

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• The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, Cutting, Animal

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.74

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• Eyes and Priests Bear no Jests.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Bears

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.18, Nayika Publishing

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• A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -- and he's a priest.

  Erma Bombeck

  Husband, Wife, Goes On

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.135, Open Road Media

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• The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country, Presses

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• But the unfaithful priest, what tongue
  Enough, shall execrate?

  Robert Pollok

  Tongue, Unfaithful, Enough

  Robert Pollok (1857). “The Course of Time: A Poem”, p.55

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• In their meditations, the high priests and priestesses of Atlantis had seen that the Atlantean civilization was going to end cataclysmically.

  Frederick Lenz

  Civilization, Meditation, Atlantis

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• I've had such extremes in my life. From being this kind of wild kid, to one year studying to be a Franciscan priest at the seminary....I was very frustrated.

  Tom Cruise

  Kids, Years, Frustrated

  "New Again: Tom Cruise And Cameron Crowe". Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2011.

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• When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

  Albert Murray

  Men, Medicine, Swings

  Albert Murray (1970). “The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy”

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• A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Spiritual, Questions And Answers, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Sep 17, 2016

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• I don't want to preach, but I would like to see metal become more of a united thing. I'm tired of people breaking things down into categories like thrash metal and death metal. I think people tend to stick to one category, and I want people to support all kinds of bands, whether it be Slayer or Queensryche or Death. I miss the days when it was acceptable to listen to everything from Priest and Maiden to Slayer and Venom.

  Chuck Schuldiner

  Tired, Thinking, People

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• The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female fool.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sacrifice, Atheism, Liberty

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.571, Library of America

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• Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.

  Arthur Middleton

  Forever, Doe, Ministry

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• The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

  Arthur Middleton

  Needs, Christ, Slave

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• Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest
  has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Thinking

  Interview with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. November 11, 2011.

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