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Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin. -- Rocco Buttiglione
Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
God created sex. Priests created marriage. -- Voltaire
Eyes and Priests Bear no Jests. -- Benjamin Franklin
Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight. -- Edmund Smith
Priests and conjurors are of the same trade. -- Thomas Paine
Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns. -- Honore de Balzac
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. -- Thomas Paine
Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism. -- John Haynes Holmes
Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke. -- Terry Pratchett
Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion. -- Robert Genn
Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to. -- Bill Hicks
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. -- Denis Diderot
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires. -- William Blake
One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight. -- Alexander Pope
Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else. -- A. J. Hartley
Sex ages us. Priests are boyish, spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty. We others, the demon rots us out. -- John Updike
Priests are very interested in theater in New York! It's this lovely reminder that priests are just people, too, who need to be entertained. -- Stephen Karam
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. -- Thomas Paine
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. -- Alexander Pope
What the Vatican did will be indelibly and eternally engraved in our hearts. Priests and even high prelates did things that will forever be an honor to Catholicism. -- Israel Zolli
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so. -- Samuel Butler
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith. -- Ethan Allen
And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them. -- Maria Monk
Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth. -- Marianne Williamson
I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them. -- William Shirley
My job isn't to go around judging people. Priests are meant to teach love and forgiveness. That to me is the essence of being a Christian. And trying to find that love and forgiveness in ourselves and others every day should be a challenge that we want to achieve. -- Rosamund Lupton
Hell is paved with priests' skulls. -- Saint John Chrysostom
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson
Today is my anniversary of ordination to the priesthood. Please pray for me and all priests. -- Pope Francis
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. -- Denis Diderot
Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices. -- Pope Francis
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. -- Benjamin Disraeli
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. -- Thomas Jefferson
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. -- Leonard Cohen
A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear. -- Peter L. Berger
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity. -- Pope John Paul II
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. -- Edward Abbey
In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest. -- Martin Luther
In Mexico the gods ruled, the priests interpreted and interposed, and the people obeyed.In Spain, the priests ruled, the king interpreted and interposed, and the gods obeyed. A nuance in an ideological difference is a wide chasm. -- Richard Condon
Sectarian priests cry out concerning me, and ask, "Why is it this babbler gains so many followers, and retains them?" I answer, It is because I possess the principle of love. All I can offer the world is a good heart and a good hand. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?' -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus. -- Thomas Jefferson
Hell is paved with priests' skulls. -- Saint John Chrysostom
I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs. -- Oscar Niemeyer
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf
The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses. -- Hernan Cortes
In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women. -- Andrew Greeley
Confessions are not processed or analysed; they're told in a moment of desperation to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime. -- Meghan Daum
Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship. -- Neil Postman
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men. -- Desiderius Erasmus
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. -- Diogenes
The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious. -- Giles Gilbert Scott
I was very serious about being a priest, twice in my life. Almost joined the Montfort Seminary after I graduated from high school. Almost went back in the seminary during college. -- Rudy Giuliani
The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make. -- Orson Scott Card
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems. -- Pope John Paul II
The highest service that men may attain to on earth is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore, God more directly demands it of them. -- John Wycliffe
A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion. -- Howard Fast
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops. -- Hans Kung
Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?' -- Annie Dillard
My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter. -- Dana Priest
The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God. -- Pope Francis
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
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
What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes. -- Charlie Sheen
I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills. -- B. F. Skinner
In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation. -- Pope Francis
The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words. -- Tom Chatfield
It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest. -- Glenn Tipton
What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them? -- William P. Leahy
When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord. -- Pope Francis
I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude. -- Andrew Greeley
In 1975, no State or Church guidelines existed in the Republic of Ireland to assist those responding to an allegation of abuse against a minor. No training was given to priests, teachers, police officers or others who worked regularly with children about how to respond appropriately should such allegations be made. -- Sean Brady
Actually, acting turned out to be the perfect job for me, because I had a lot of different interests. I thought about being a priest at one point. I thought about being a teacher. I thought about being a lawyer. But I think acting is probably the best job for me. -- John C. Reilly
We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law. -- Jack Cade
Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.' -- Alan King
I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had a big linen-supply business and I considered working for him. What dawned on me was: 'If I'm an actor, I get to do the fun parts of every job!' Without having to go to four years of law school. -- John C. Reilly
I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti. -- Henry Louis Gates
It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is. -- David Graeber
I think you've got good people and bad people in everything you do. If you start making a big deal of it, then it's a problem. It's like in life. We've got bad doctors and lawyers. We've got bad priests! We don't target every priest and say he's bad. You have to go to church and you have to go see some doctors. Some people have to be good. -- Master P
Despair makes priests and friars. -- Martin Luther
I think all priests should be married. -- Denis Leary
you [priests] are called 'another Christ.' -- Mother Teresa
First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores. -- James Clavell
Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests. -- Cheech Marin
Whoever truly worships the gods loves their priests. -- Statius
A country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies. -- Robert Kilroy-Silk
One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world. -- Bill Gaede
It's the priests who have demands, not the gods. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests -- Max von Sydow
Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult. -- Bob Barton
Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions. -- Ann Patchett
It's funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other. -- Wendelin Van Draanen
...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain... -- John Geddes
Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men. -- Robert Browning
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. -- Tanith Lee
Great improvisers are like priests... they are thinking only of their God -- Stephane Grappelli
Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people. -- George Pell
In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty. -- David Hume
All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ. -- Martin Luther
There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests. -- Ernest Hemingway
A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests. -- John Dryden
Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests -- Rajneesh
The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples. -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools. -- Jean-Luc Godard
Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men. -- Robert Browning
The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests. -- Colin Quinn
Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors. -- Henry Ward Beecher
But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests. -- Kathleen Parker
(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests. -- Therese of Lisieux
People always ask how there are female priests, but in this world there are. -- Maggie Q
The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests. -- John Henry Newman
The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests. -- George Meredith
Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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