Priests Quotes - Page 17

• It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

  Monica Furlong

  Done, Chance, Confession

  Monica Furlong (1982). “Christian Uncertainties”

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• Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

  Victor Hugo

  Believe, Remembrance, Philosopher

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.135

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• The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and mechanical science, are a continual source of tranquil pleasure, and in spite of the gloomy dogmas of priests and of superstition, the study of these things is the true theology; it teaches man to know and admire the Creator, for the principles of science are in the creation, and are unchangeable and of divine origin.

  Thomas Paine

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

  Thomas Paine (2003). “The Age of Reason”, p.118, Book Tree

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• From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Morning, Kings, Father

  Woodrow Wilson (1895). “The State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics. A Sketch of Institutional History and Administration”

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• 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; say to the priests that you know God better than all of them together do, and that between God and His law you have no need of any intermediary. The people will understand you, and repeat with you: We believe in God the Father, who is Intelligence and Love, Creator and Teacher of Humanity. And in this saying you and the People will conquer.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Love, Country, Teacher

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Half, Positive Atheism

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.242, Knopf

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• Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Kings, War, Heaven

  "Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

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• An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

  Alec Guinness

  Two, Heaven, Theatre

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• 'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'

  George Herbert

  Science, Devil, Way

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• Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Soldier, Joints

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• [I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Faith, Science, Class

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• The man who has lived his life totally, intensely, passionately, without any fear - without any fear that has been created in you by the priests for centuries and centuries - if a person lives his life without any fear, authentically, spontaneously, death will not create any fear in him, not at all. In fact, death will come as a great rest. Death will come as the ultimate flowering of life. He will be able to enjoy death too; he will be able to celebrate death too.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Men, Able

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• The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.

  Mark Twain

  God, Christian, Army

  "Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations".

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• But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Church, Compass

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “The Devils of Loudun”, p.13, HarperCollins

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

  Anne Royall

  Country, Brother, Atheism

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• That's what the shaman said. He didn't know what he was up against. He didn't expect the strength and weight and evil intensity of this spirit, this "entity," as he called it. The same way the priest in an exorcism has to take on the spirit.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Evil, Weight, Way

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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• I am not a theologian, nor am I a priest or a minister, but I think building walls is fundamentally contrary to what made this country what it is. We're a pluralistic society in its functions.

  Joe Biden

  Country, Wall, Thinking

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Religion, Function

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• God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.

  Shane Claiborne

  Kings, President, Use

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter.... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race.

  James Joyce

  Race, Ends, Chapters

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• You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and on the other: You are obscurantist ignoramuses who'd like to shut down progress and drag us all back to the 16th century, with kings and priests telling us what to think.

  John Derbyshire

  Spiritual, Kings, Thinking

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• You look at what happened to the priest over the weekend in Paris, where his throat was cut, 85-year-old, beloved Catholic priest. You look at what happened in Nice, France, a couple of weeks ago. I would say, you gotta take a look that, because something is going on, and it's not good.

  Donald Trump

  Couple, Nice, Cutting

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. July 31, 2016.

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• Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old to be precise. These experiences opened my mind to the idea of a Creator and that caring for other living things was a Christian duty. My parents were not strongly religious at the time and when I announced at that youthful age that I wanted to be a priest, it not unnaturally provoked some incredulity, even mirth. In the same year, I became a vegetarian, which--for family and friends--was even more vexing.

  Andrew Linzey

  Christian, Religious, Caring

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• I had 50 pastors, ministers, I had priests, I had a couple of rabbis in a big conference room in one of my buildings. And we're talking and I could see they really liked me. But I could also see they couldn't endorse me. I said, "Just out of curiosity, why?""Well, we can't do it because we'll lose our tax-exempt status."

  Donald Trump

  Couple, Talking, Curiosity

  Source: time.com

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• One of the things I will do very early in my administration is to get rid of the Johnson Amendment so that our great pastors and ministers and rabbis and - and everybody - and priests and everybody can go and tell and can participate in the process.

  Donald Trump

  Administration, Ministers, Amendments

  Source: time.com

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