Priests Quotes - Page 16

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

H. G. Wells

Success, Mother, Teacher

H. G. Wells (2012). “The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind”, p.30, The Floating Press

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Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Knights, Doctors, Soldier

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O my dear parishioners, let us endeavor to get to heaven! There we shall see God. How happy we shall feel! If the parish is converted we shall go there in procession with the parish priest at the head. . . We must get to heaven! What a pity it would be if some of you were to find yourselves on the other side!

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Heaven, Would Be, Sides

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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

H. L. Mencken

Powerful, Inspiration, Years

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Einstein uses his concept of God more often than a Catholic priest. Once I asked him:
'Tomorrow is Sunday. Do you want me to come to you, so we can work?'
'Why not?'
'Because I thought perhaps you would like to rest on Sunday.'
Einstein settled the question by saying with a loud laugh: 'God does not rest on Sunday either.'

Leopold Infeld

God, Sunday, Laughing

Leopold Infeld (1941). “Quest: The Evolution of a Scientist”

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The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and controversial radio broadcaster] Father Coughlin and [racist and anti-Semitic agitator and founder of the Christian Nationalist Crusade] Gerald L.K. Smith started out as share-the-wealth socialists.

James Ellroy

Christian, Father, Guy

Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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We always think of saints as these monks or nuns or popes or priests from centuries ago who were celibate or lived very quiet lives. Maybe we don't know a lot about a lot them but what I'm saying is the saints of the 21st century are gonna be regular people - people who've kissed other people. They're gonna be married people.

Lino Rulli

Thinking, People, Saint

Source: www.beliefnet.com

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Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the guide to your life only that which accords with your own reason and experience, after thorough investigation. Accept only that which contributes to the well-being of yourself and others.

Gautama Buddha

Teacher, Believe, Reason

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To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.

Fulton J. Sheen

Boys, Meditation, Doe

Fulton J. Sheen (2004). “The Priest Is Not His Own”, p.69, Ignatius Press

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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

John Vianney

People, Heaven, Hell

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I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a declared assent to all of their interested absurdities. My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest.

Thomas Jefferson

Religion, Atheism, Doe

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From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Albert Einstein

Atheist, If There Is A God, Religion

Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr. (28 September 1949), from article by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1997.

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

Michael Warner

Marriage, Gay, Typical

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Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of laws for their government ... the real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature.

Robert Green Ingersoll

God, Real, Ignorance

Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.31

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In every country and 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. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes.

Thomas Jefferson

Country, Men, Abuse

Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.74, Modern Library

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During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture, the priest, the church, into the innermost unconscious of the child so that from there you can control him.

Rajneesh

Children, Mean, Hypnosis

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Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates a repulsion, where the very word 'religion' reminds one of dead churches and dead priests. It reminds one of serious looking people, long faces. It has lost the capacity to dance, to sing, to celebrate. And when a religion has lost the capacity to dance, to celebrate, to sing, to love, just to be, then it is no more religion - it is a corpse, it is theology. Theology is dead religion.

Rajneesh

Long, People, Religion

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To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Philosophy, Book, Knowing

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.174, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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

Kurt Braunohler

Catholic, Grew Up, Wanted

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Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,and dismiss whatever insults your own soul... It is also not consistent with the reality of the soul to admit that there is anything in the known universe more divine than men and women. The master knows that he is unspeakably great and that all are unspeakably great. 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

Book, School, Reality

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...in every religion the priest insists on five things -
First: There is a God.
Second: He has made known his will.
Third: He has selected me to explain this message.
Fourth: We will now take up a collection; and
Fifth: Those who fail to subscribe will certainly be damned.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Messages, Firsts, Failing

Robert Green Ingersoll (1920). “Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works”

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If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Giving Up, Believe, Paradise

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Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Book, Frying Pans, Holy

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Consumerism has become a new religion, complete with its high priests at Which? and its fatwas against anyone with the temerity to try to sell anything at more than cost price ... It is a depressingly medieval outlook on economic life.

Sean O'Grady

Trying, Cost, Medieval

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God can be good and terrible-not in succession-but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and him; we approach him through the mediating priest and attenuate and enclose him through the sacraments. It is for our own safety: to trap him within confines which render him safe.

Philip K. Dick

Safety, Traps, Terrible

Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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