Priests Quotes - Page 23

• I don't consider myself to be a media guy. It just happens to be that I've had opportunities in the media. I don't consider myself to be on a career path. I'm just a Christian and a Catholic priest.

  Jonathan Morris

  Christian, Opportunity, Media

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car.

  Pope Francis

  Grieving, Car, Nun

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research.

  George Coyne

  Religious, Research, Enriching Experience

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Men, Soldier

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.54, Library of America

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• The devil made you a slave. Your waitin' for the devil to come from the ground. Take a look around. Just look at the cross that the priest is holdin'. A beast, in sheep's clothin'. You are the prince of darkness. Hell born, demonic.

  Ice Cube

  Sheep, Darkness, Devil

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

  George Carlin

  Art, Philosophy, Example

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• 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.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Nature, Facts, Immortal

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.290, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Power, World, Morality

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.96, Penguin

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• To be a great teacher, you can't simply be looking at how to earn your income. And with a priest or spiritual leader - there's another relationship that makes those lives what they are. And in each of these cases you'll find elements of gift exchange thriving, and you'll also find a tension around it.

  Lewis Hyde

  Spiritual, Teacher, Leader

  Interview with Akshay Ahuja, logger.believermag.com. January 9, 2015.

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

  George Lopez

  Funny, Humor, Sunday

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• My feeling is that in the purest form, an actor is a service to the people. It's democratic in its purest form. That's what an actor is. If he or she isn't that, then there is no purpose in doing it. They're like priests.

  Scott Cohen

  People, Feelings, Purpose

  Source: twoaspirinsandacomedy.com

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• I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not possible to reach the hearts of the congregants without a bit of poetry and storytelling.

  Uwem Akpan

  Jesus, Powerful, Believe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Lying, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816”, p.507, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Journey, Focus

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• While we destroyed the Centre Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of respectable people we have restored their faith in their religion and in their priests. The union of the Evangelical Church in a single Church for the whole Reich, the Concordat with the Catholic Church, these are but milestones on the road which leads to the establishment of a useful relation and a useful co operation between the Reich and the two Confessions.

  Adolf Hitler

  Party, Two, People

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• Jesus ... said - long before his followers had established churches and a priesthood - 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.' This Way is the life of the Spirit. To follow it entails no necessity for places (all places are holy ground), no priesthood, since every man becomes a priest unto God.

  Esme Wynne-Tyson

  Jesus, Men, Holy Ground

  Esme Wynne Tyson (1949). “The Unity of Being”

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• If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Doe, Facts, Christ

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1061, Library of Alexandria

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• Pope John Paul II himself was kind of a rather independent, creative man. I remember being told by somebody who worked very close with him in preparation for his first visit to the United States in 1979, he studied our normative documents, Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, the Constitution. And he was amazed. He called his priests first
  thing in the morning and he said, he said, I thought America was a pagan country.

  Chris Matthews

  Country, Morning, Independent

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• According to an article on CNN.com, a new study says people who are bad kissers don't get laid. Where are you supposed to learn how to kiss? If you go to Catholic school, it's from your priest; in public school, you learn from your teacher; and some guys learn from their sisters... if their sister is Angelina Jolie.

  Chelsea Handler

  Teacher, School, Kissing

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• Italian women are some of the most beautiful in the world. This is why the Vatican is in Italy. If a man can walk across Italy and retain his celibacy, he's got what it takes to be a priest - or an interior decorator.

  Craig Ferguson

  Beautiful, Italian, Men

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• Then it was snack time, right in the middle of mass. Right out of nowhere, the priest would look down and say, 'Let's have some yum yums!' You would get in line - you would jump in the line - and you would go up and get the crouton O'Christ.

  Dane Cook

  Snacks, Looks, Lines

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• [My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy.

  Mavis Gallant

  Father, Blessed, Blood

  Mavis Gallant (2011). “Varieties of Exile”, p.136, New York Review of Books

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

  Joan Rivers

  Water, Hell, Holy

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• Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Wine, Reality, Suffering

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1969). “Building the Earth: And The Psychological Conditions of Human Unification”

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• A priest is sent to Alaska. A bishop goes up to visit one year later. The bishop asks, How do you like it up here? The priest says, If it wasn't for my Rosary, and 2 martinis a day, I'd be lost. Bishop, would you like a martini? Yes. Rosary, get the bishop a martini!

  Henny Youngman

  Alaska, Years, Rosary

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