Priests Quotations

A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.

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.

Francis seems familiar because Catholics have already known him in the Vatican II priests who have been their pastors and sacramental ministers over the years since that council brought new life to an old church. Catholics have known him in the bishops and priests who brought the spirit of the council to their dioceses and parishes.

As scientists have discovered - or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified - we now live in the age of the Anthropocene. The geologic age of the Anthropocene. Those high priests of material evidence have given us our own epoch like the Holocene, the Pleistocene! Apparently we now, it seems, have superhuman powers.

I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.

We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

I wrestled with my Catholicism for a long time. It took a long time to escape. It began with a sense that it was repressive, stern, judgmental. It was passionate, but it was terrifying. There were individual priests and nuns who were helpful, but the religion was cold.

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.

Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.

I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

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

I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests.

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

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

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

Good priests never look for awards and, perversely enough in the clerical culture universe, do not receive many. Like the aged nuns who taught selflessly and nearly anonymously all their lives, these servants of the People of God only get into the papers when their obituaries are printed.

In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.

I shall always be a priest of love.

What cursed spirit of falsehood moveth priests to close themselves within stone walls for all their life, since Christ commanded all his apostles and priests to go into all the world, and to preach the Gospel?

The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.

Jesus Christ never preached there should be celibate priests. The only reason the church has this is because it's a mechanism of power and control. You can control priests who are celibate.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

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.

I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the priests of all sorts by claiming religious liberty; the anarchists by repressing them; and the conspirators by rejecting their offers.

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

The net's future is far from assured, and history offers much warning. Within a few decades of Gutenberg's creation, princes and priests moved to restrict the right to print books.

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

We look to our pastors and priests and rabbis and counselors of all kinds to testify of the enduring principles upon which our society is built: honesty, charity, integrity and family.

Of all of my assignments, that was the most wonderful. The people were great. But most people don't realize the seven to 10 jobs that priests are doing as one job. That is a contributing factor to priest burnout.

The priests say the new dawn will be like the rain that fertilizes the soil before we begin to plant our corn. It will renew the natural cycle of life. The Mayan people will once again flourish. I believe in this very strongly. The holy men say we are entering a period of clarity. We are rediscovering our Mayan values.

But this is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers have known this from the day they read their first review.

My seven-year-old daughter knows old songs and how the neighborhoods got their names. There are little things: Businesses receive blessings from Hawaiian priests before opening, and everyone's kids have their debut luau. You can't really get through a day without doing something Hawaiian.

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind.

Regardless of the number of men we ordain to the priesthood each year, that number does not keep pace with the number of priests who retire from the ministry. As a result of fewer priests, the need for well-trained lay ministers is even more important.

We're not attacking the Catholic Church. We're simply suggesting there was a time in its history when the church dealt with molesting priests in a much different manner than it does now.

We happened to have a number of senior priests who retired . . . and that essentially had a domino effect. It was the largest shift of priests we've had in recent years.

I think all priests should be married.

I wanted passionately to be a priest.

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult.

Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.

There is no other church official in America who has a more documented record in the courts and elsewhere of aiding and abetting serial child rapists -- predator priests who are out there.

Bishop Lennon was part of Bernard Cardinal Law's administration, which protected pedophile priests instead of innocent children. Apparently, Bishop Lennon is now being rewarded for being part of that administration.

Actors yearn for the perfect director, athletes for the perfect coach, priests for the perfect pope, presidents for the perfect historian. Writers hunger for the perfect reviewer.

deeply grieved by the fact that priests and religious have themselves caused such suffering and scandal among the young.

A lot of what we do are things that only priests used to do. It involves doing many things alongside the pastor and the rest of the team in care of the parish; things like some teaching, some sacramental preparation, visiting the sick, training people for roles in the ministry.

People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

energetic and vigorous about rooting out all those bishops who have kept priests in positions of ministry where they can harm children again.

Even Buddhist priests of the same temple quarrel occasionally

In old times we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices

The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.

In the Church, priests also are sinners. But I am personally convinced that the constant presence in the press of the sins of Catholic priests, especially in the United States, is a planned campaign, as the percentage of these offenses among priests is not higher than in other categories, and perhaps it is even lower.

By and large the people in our parishes, ... the priests tell me they think that the steps the Bishops of this country have taken have done a great job and are meeting the crisis. We're doing a great educational outreach program trying to prevent abuse by clergy or anyone else.

I didn't play practical jokes at home. I had a strict upbringing, which is part of my rebellion. I was raised Catholic and went to parochial school, which is why priests and nuns appear in my movies a lot, and I don't have very much nice to say about them.

Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought." The Greek said, "All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

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.

Along the avenue of cypresses, / All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices / Of linen, go the chanting choristers, / The priests in gold and black, the villagers.

He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!

We don't want advisers to advisers to advisers who have never done the job-we want priests like this, and if the vacant parishes of England could be filled with such priests, the Church's mission would go forward overnight.

It's funny, how you look at so many priests who are characters when you're growing up; then one day you find you're a character yourself,

There were lots of road trips they went on. They went to summer camps where the priests were directors. They were altar boys -- there was constant access to them.

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

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

I can’t tell by looking in your eyes whether you’re a priest or a crook.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

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

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

Back in 1994 there was no Judas Priest.

Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.

Aimee-"If someone's possessed by a demon, how do you get the demon out?" Xedrix-"Call a priest.

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests

When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.

Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.

My priest tells me i should not date a mormon but im just too in love with you that i'm willing to take risks

The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.

But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!

A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.

I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.

I don't think I'm going to be priest material.

What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.

Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.

It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.