Priests Quotes - Page 11

• I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.

  Conrad Veidt

  Strong, Believe, Acting

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• 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.

  Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Hands, Soul, Secret

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• 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.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  People, History, Function

  G.M. Trevelyan (1949). “CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS”

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• He was a hot, hot former priest and she wanted to pull a Thorn Birds on his ass.

  Marjorie M. Liu

  Bird, Hot, Ass

  Karen Chance, Marjorie M. Liu, Yasmine Galenorn, Eileen Wilks (2010). “Inked”, p.133, Penguin

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• I was told by my father, who was a priest, that it was the basic duty of a Muslim to establish peace on earth... I soon came to the conclusion that it was not religion but misuse of religion and politicising of religion, which was the main culprit.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Father, Causes, Earth

  Asghar Ali Engineer's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

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• Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be extinct, all ideality will be extinct; and in its place will reign the duality of lust and luxury as the male and female deities, with money as its priest, fraud, force, and competition its ceremonies, and the human soul its sacrifice. Such a thing can never be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sweet, Sacrifice, Luxury

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1744, Manonmani Publishers

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• Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.

  John Hillaby

  Church, Village, Pubs

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• I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, I put it all down - I'm out on a limb here, so watch my back.

  Billy Idol

  Sex, Heart, Dark

  "Billy Idol: The Story of My Drug-Fueled Recording of 'Dancing with Myself'" by Billy Idol, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2014.

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• Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.

  Marquis de Sade

  Beautiful, Plot, Add

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• My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.

  Wyclef Jean

  Uncles, Daddy, Grandfather

  "Q&A: Wyclef Jean on Bill Clinton and Haiti's New Revolution". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. July 8, 2010.

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• 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.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Light, Skulls, Bishops

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• Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the truth-with a capital T. But every country priest who visits his parishioners and has heard a man gasping for breath on his deathbed thinks as I do. He'd try to relieve human suffering before trying to point out its goodness.

  Albert Camus

  Country, Men, Thinking

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• I said to this priest: 'Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was really going to be upset? Okay, thou shalt not kill... steal... but thou shalt not commit adultery? If no one is any the wiser, what the hell difference does it make?' He was lovely. He told me the Commandments were laid down for a lot of guys living in the desert

  Diana Dors

  Believe, Differences, Guy

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place. A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man, and every man shall be his own priest.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Order, Two

  Walt Whitman (1961). “Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition”, p.22, Penguin

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• Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Moving, Home, School

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• An honorable man would never abandon his friend in time of need, especially if they were in a foreign country. Why? For fear of acting like a coward or of being boorish. I repeat, I admire the fact that, those persons have, through human respect, more courage than Christians and priests have, through charity or through their good intentions.

  Vincent de Paul

  Leadership, Christian, Country

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Fun, Thinking, Devil

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• If I became lost in the multiverse, exploring infinite parallel dimensions, my only criterion for settling down somewhere would be whether or not I could find you: and once I did, I'd stay there even if it was a world ruled by giant spider-priests, or one where killer robots won the Civil War, or even a world where sandwiches were never invented, because you'd make it the best of all possible worlds anyway, and plus we could get rich off inventing sandwiches.

  Tim Pratt

  Love, Romantic, War

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• A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Honesty, Writing, Editing

  Men at War introduction (1942)

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

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Men, Class

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including “The Life of Thomas Paine” – Extensive Biography of the Author”, p.623, e-artnow

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

  Andrew Greeley

  Glowing, Data, Support

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

  Edith Hamilton

  Greek, Mind, Use

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• We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It's a joy to be able to do it.

  Glenn Tipton

  Night, Joy, Able

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• 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.

  Arthur Middleton

  Inspiration, Times Have Changed, Principles

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• 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.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Community, Three, Felons

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