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  • Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent. -- John Polkinghorne
  • You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything. -- Andy Taylor
  • But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God. -- Charles Hodge
  • Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ. -- John Henry Newman
  • The Holy Father has acted as the Vicar of Christ and acted like Christ himself, who never refused to talk to anyone. -- Francesco Cossiga
  • I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation. -- St. Catherine of Siena
  • But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God." -- Charles Hodge
  • What is the pope doing inserting himself - he's the Vicar of Christ. He is the worldwide leader of the Catholic faith. What is he doing inserting himself into the American political system this way? That to me is the larger question. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • What is the pope doing inserting himself - he's the Vicar of Christ. He is the worldwide leader of the Catholic faith. What is he doing inserting himself into the American political system this way? That to me is the larger question. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • The Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff have primacy in the entire world. The Roman Pontiff is the Successor of Blessed Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, true Vicar of Christ, Head of the whole Church, Father and Teacher of all Christians. -- Pope Benedict XIV
  • Outside of London especially, I can't go anywhere without people buying me a drink. There are quite a lot of people who know me from The Vicar Of Dibley and are big Dibley fans, but they don't have things to shout at me from that show. -- Roger Lloyd-Pack
  • The vicar of Christ is an individual, not an electorate. -- Conrad Black
  • I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England. -- Theresa May
  • A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Just as you can accept Miss Marple going to tea with the vicar, there's no reason why Long Island can't have a universality to it. -- Susan Isaacs
  • Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ. -- Charles Hodge
  • Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence. -- Ronnie Barker
  • You don't think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with being the vicar's daughter. You're supposed to behave in a particular way. I shouldn't say it, but I probably was Goody Two Shoes. -- Theresa May
  • I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her. -- Jo Brand
  • Back in the days of the Smiths, when we first started touring England - this is, like, 1984 - there were these two girls. They were literally vicar's daughters, and they used to follow us to every gig, no matter where we went. -- Andy Rourke
  • A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children. -- Simon Hoggart
  • My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father. She was not obliged to; Muslim men are free to marry ahl al-kitab, or people of the Book - among them, Jews and Christians. -- Shereen El Feki
  • Nature, the vicar of the Almighty Lord. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
  • The Holy Spirit, not the pope, is the vicar of Christ on earth. -- Adoniram Judson Gordon
  • A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne. -- Rudyard Kipling
  • What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover? -- Simon R. Green
  • The vicar's handshake was warm and reassuring, but shaking hands with Mavis was like clutching a bunch of dead twigs. -- Victoria Twead
  • It's very kind of you to take us in, said the vicar, smiling. We're so sorry if we've put you out at all. Not at all! I said, lying through my teeth. -- Victoria Twead
  • [Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something. -- Steven Morrissey
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