Quotes about Priests

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

God created sex. Priests created marriage. Votes: 3

Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight. Votes: 3

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade. Votes: 3

Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns. Votes: 3

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. Votes: 3

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism. Votes: 3

Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke. Votes: 3

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion. Votes: 3

Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to. Votes: 3

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires. Votes: 3

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. Votes: 3

One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight. Votes: 3

Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else. Votes: 3

Sex ages us. Priests are boyish, spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty. We others, the demon rots us out. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God. Votes: 2

Eyes and Priests Bear no Jests. Votes: 2

Hell is paved with priests' skulls. Votes: 2

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. Votes: 2

Today is my anniversary of ordination to the priesthood. Please pray for me and all priests. Votes: 2

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Votes: 2

Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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?' Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Hell is paved with priests' skulls. Votes: 1

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs. Votes: 1

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Votes: 1

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses. Votes: 1

In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. Votes: 1

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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?' Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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? Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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.' Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Despair makes priests and friars. Votes: 0

I think all priests should be married. Votes: 0

you [priests] are called 'another Christ.' Votes: 0

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores. Votes: 0

Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests. Votes: 0

Whoever truly worships the gods loves their priests. Votes: 0

A country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies. Votes: 0

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests. Votes: 0

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world. Votes: 0

It's the priests who have demands, not the gods. Votes: 0

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests Votes: 0

Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult. Votes: 0

Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions. Votes: 0

It's funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other. Votes: 0

...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain... Votes: 0

Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly. Votes: 0

Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men. Votes: 0

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. Votes: 0

Great improvisers are like priests... they are thinking only of their God Votes: 0

Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people. Votes: 0

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty. Votes: 0

All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ. Votes: 0

There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests. Votes: 0

A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests. Votes: 0

Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests Votes: 0

The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples. Votes: 0

I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools. Votes: 0

Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men. Votes: 0

The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests. Votes: 0

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors. Votes: 0

But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests. Votes: 0

(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests. Votes: 0

People always ask how there are female priests, but in this world there are. Votes: 0

The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests. Votes: 0

The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests. Votes: 0

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests. Votes: 0

Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed. Votes: 0

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. Votes: 0

Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition. Votes: 0

Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species. Votes: 0

When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors. Votes: 0

Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants. Votes: 0

In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings. Votes: 0

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity. Votes: 0

I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it. Votes: 0

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus. Votes: 0

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. Votes: 0

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses. Votes: 0

Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world. Votes: 0

Support your priests with your love and prayers, that they may always be shepherds after Christ's heart Votes: 0

I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests. I'm the new Barry Fitzgerald, except with a Mexican accent. Votes: 0

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God. Votes: 0

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict. Votes: 0

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches? Lemuel K Votes: 0

Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday. Votes: 0

Many Buddhist temple priests regard their parishioners as possessions and fear their departure as a diminishing of assets. Votes: 0

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. Votes: 0

The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine. Votes: 0

In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices. Votes: 0

The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests? Votes: 0

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. Votes: 0

I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well. Votes: 0

Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices. Votes: 0

How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another. Votes: 0

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists. Votes: 0

In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power. Votes: 0

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation. Votes: 0

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know. Votes: 0

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world. Votes: 0

In their meditations, the high priests and priestesses of Atlantis had seen that the Atlantean civilization was going to end cataclysmically. Votes: 0

In their meditations, the high priests and priestesses of Atlantis had seen that the Atlantean civilization was going to end cataclysmically. Votes: 0

[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals. Votes: 0

Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time." Votes: 0

Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time. Votes: 0

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves. Votes: 0

The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun. Votes: 0

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. Votes: 0

The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits? Votes: 0

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins. Votes: 0

Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel. Votes: 0

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love') Votes: 0

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere. Votes: 0

[The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness. Votes: 0

I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests. Votes: 0

Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion. Votes: 0

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest. Votes: 0

People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival. Votes: 0

The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion. Votes: 0

The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals. Votes: 0

For centuries kings, priests, feudal lords, industrial bosses and parents have insisted that obedience is a virtue and that disobedience is a vice. Votes: 0

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. Votes: 0

Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate. Votes: 0

Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance. Votes: 0

Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us. Votes: 0

Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers. Votes: 0

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth. Votes: 0

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality. Votes: 0

It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests. Votes: 0

Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you . . . Votes: 0

After the seventh time, the priests blew the trumpets, and Joshua said to the people, "Shout! For the LORD has given you the city." Joshua 6:16 Votes: 0

What I hated most was seeing those priests and brothers getting so much pleasure out of inflicting pain. I wondered what was wrong with them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I as little fear that God will damn a person who has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people. Votes: 0

It is time for pastors, priests and all true believers to come out of the closet and stand for truth against the flood of evil. Votes: 0

Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears. Votes: 0

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions. Votes: 0

There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they're leftists. Votes: 0

Some people have the license to sin: Soldiers, to kill; politicians, writers, priests, businessmen, married man and women, to lie; and married couples to have sex Votes: 0

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. . . . Votes: 0

The Tezuman priests have a sophisticated calendar and an advanced horology," quoted Rincewind. "Ah," said Eric, "Good." "No," said Rincewind patiently. "It means time measurement." "Oh. Votes: 0

Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests. Votes: 0

The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path. Votes: 0

...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones Votes: 0

There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are! Votes: 0

If all the priests go we all want to be married and the pope goes all priests should be married than I say go for it. Votes: 0

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves. Votes: 0

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult. Votes: 0

It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind Votes: 0

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get. Votes: 0

On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis. Votes: 0

The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As a Catholic, I am proud of the social mission of the church and its concerns for the poor and dispossessed, but I still personally would support women priests. Votes: 0

He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders. Votes: 0

Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry, and coffee is said to induce chastity. Votes: 0

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them. Votes: 0

Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill! Votes: 0

You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with the Emperor even if he demands this. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen. Votes: 0

Catholic dioceses typically spent hundreds of thousands of dollars recklessly, then filed for bankruptcy. The goal was to avoid the money going to the hands of victims of predator priests. Votes: 0

We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute. Votes: 0

We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute. Votes: 0

You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food." Votes: 0

The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world. Votes: 0

You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move askew as fraught with sly designs Votes: 0

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief. Votes: 0

Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever. Votes: 0

It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism. Votes: 0

I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like...eternal hell. Votes: 0

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles? Votes: 0

Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Lord did nothing either of himself or through his apostles without his Father, with whom he is united; so too, you should undertake nothing without the bishop and the presbyters priests. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year. Votes: 0

I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated. Votes: 0

That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year." Votes: 0

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public. Votes: 0

The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The high-priests and priestesses of Atlantis had discovered many of the deepest secrets of the universe. They had come to understand all about reincarnation, karma, and the innermost workings of the Enlightenment Cycle. Votes: 0

The high-priests and priestesses of Atlantis had discovered many of the deepest secrets of the universe. They had come to understand all about reincarnation, karma, and the innermost workings of the Enlightenment Cycle. Votes: 0

I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the 'circle the wagons' mentality revictimized the innocent, coddled the guilty, and made matters worse for everyone. Votes: 0

Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today. Votes: 0

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The perpetrators of the Inquisition - the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions - were ecclesiastics of one rank or another. They were men of God - popes, bishops, friars, and priests. Votes: 0

In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a member of this group has no clout with the state. Votes: 0

It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil? Votes: 0

Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman, and you will find that you have made a declaration of war. Votes: 0

The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties. Votes: 0

Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course. Votes: 0

If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of selling us hope (i.e., public speakers, presidents, priests, etc.) wouldn't wear suits. Votes: 0

If you explain to a patient what can be done and what might be the downsides, let the patient choose; don't have ethicists, priests, or doctors say you may or may not have replacement cells. Votes: 0

Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents--they were so upset and reproachful...I felt as if something they all passionately believed in depended on me carrying on with something I didn't. Votes: 0

Boy lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers... are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and parents who force their staid morality onto the young people in their custody. Votes: 0

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Votes: 0

Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats. Votes: 0