Priests Quotes

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

Pope Francis

Prayer, Sacrifice, People

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I think I came here as a priest... The priest is more concerned with heresy than with sin; sins can be forgiven; heresy must be eliminated.

Samuel Bowers

Thinking, Civil Rights, Sin

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I shall always be a priest of love.

D. H. Lawrence

Love

D. H. Lawrence (1962). “The Art of Perversity”

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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.

Arthur Middleton

Prayer, People, And Love

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A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart in which people find God's consolation, understanding and love.

Arthur Middleton

Heart, People, Understanding

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The world looks to the priest, because it looks to Jesus! No one can see Christ; but everyone sees the priest, and through him they wish to catch a glimpse of the Lord! Immense is the grandeur of the Lord! Immense is the grandeur and dignity of the priest!

Pope John Paul II

Jesus, Wish, Glimpse

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Humanity, Church, Needs

Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Heart, Body, Temples

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

Denis Diderot

Atheist, Kings, Men

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The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.

Saint Augustine

Angel, Sacrifice, Helping

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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

Victor Hugo

Demon, Made, Notre Dame

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.1423, Delphi Classics

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Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Looks, Trouble

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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.

Inspiring, Leadership, Peace

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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

Maturity, Expression, Servant Of God

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you [priests] are called 'another Christ.'

Mother Teresa

Christ

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

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Crush, People, Rivals

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2012). “Purple Hibiscus: A Novel”, p.220, Algonquin Books

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Now may the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the eternal high priest himself, the Son of God Jesus Christ, build you up in faith and truth and in all gentleness and in all freedom from anger and forbearance and steadfastness and patient endurance and purity.

Polycarp

Jesus, Father, Son

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In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

Inspirational, Life, Birthday

"Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness".

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You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.

Saint John Chrysostom

Christian, Prayer, Home

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Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

Saint John Chrysostom

Skulls, Religion, Hell

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 362-64, 1922.

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Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter.

Thomas Paine

Atheist, Heart, Mean

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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

Faith, Kings, Sacrifice

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Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

Robert A. Heinlein

Guilty, Innocent

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.221, Penguin

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Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

Thomas Paine

Religion, Trade

Thomas Paine (2013). “The Thomas Paine Reader”, p.551, Simon and Schuster

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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

Jesus, Men, Ideas

Thomas Jefferson (1964). “The Jefferson Bible: With the Annotated Commentaries on Religion of Thomas Jefferson”

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