Priests Quotes - Page 25

Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities.

Joan Aiken

Teaching, Healing, Mean

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Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.

Jennifer Stone

Religious, Jobs, Wings

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Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.

N.D. Wilson

Doctors, Elephants, Magic

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The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

Bill Vaughan

Veils, Confession, Secrecy

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[On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male closed shop, seeing that, to judge from church attendance, women are the more religious sex - while our criminal statistics make quite clear that they are the least wicked.

Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

Religious, Sex, Judging

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Ill be playing a priest in Chavez Cage Of Glory, which is a fight movie.

Steven Bauer

Fighting, Cages, Glory

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The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.

Robert A. Heinlein

Brain, Religion, Lame

Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to invent a new kind of worship of Sex, which is not even a worship of Life. It has been left to the very latest Modernists to proclaim an erotic religion which at once exalts lust and forbids fertility . . . The new priests abolish the fatherhood and keep the feast - to themselves.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christian, Sex, Erotic

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In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

David Hume

Enemy, Age, Liberty

'Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary' (ed. T. H. Green and T. H. Grose, 1875) 'Of the Parties of Great Britain' (1741-2)

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The time has come to put into practice the charity taught by the masters and priests of all times. The words said between the pigeons' cooing under the sacred porticos of all the temples should now turn into concrete reality.

Samael Aun Weor

Reality, Practice, Charity

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Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.

G. Harry Stine

Technology, Years, Revolution

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Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.

Terence McKenna

Dirty, Buddhism, India

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I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.

Terence McKenna

Real, Thinking, Offering

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In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Artist, Civilization, Clown

Malcolm Muggeridge (1980). “The End of Christendom”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.

Marge Piercy

Giving, Choices, Mind

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Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.

Vance Havner

Christian, Sacrifice, Offering

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If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.

Abraham Lincoln

School, Rights, Rome

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In the immense cathedral which is the universe of God, each person, whether scholar or manual laborer, is called to act as the priest of his whole life--to take all that is human, and to turn it into an offering and a hymn of glory.

Paul Evdokimov

Hymns, Offering, Glory

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Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it is. When I improvise and I'm in good form, I'm like somebody half sleeping. I even forget there are people in front of me. Great improvisers are like priests; they are thinking only of their god.

Stephane Grappelli

Book, Sleep, Writing

Matt Glaser, Stephane Grappelli (1981). “Jazz Violin”, p.63, Oak Publications

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But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests. If there were any such rule laid down in the Gospel, it would destroy the beauty of spontaneous giving and take away all the bloom from the fruit of your liberality! There is no law to tell me what I should give my father on his birthday. There is no rule laid down in any law book to decide what present a husband should give to his wife, nor what token of affection we should bestow upon others whom we love. No, the gift must be a free one, or it has lost all its sweetness.

Charles Spurgeon

Husband, Father, Book

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I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

Martin Luther

Religious, Humor, Stoves

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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.

Aldous Huxley

Kings, Superstitions, Has Beens

Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .

Geoffrey Chaucer

Men, Iron, Gold

Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through understanding the contents of his own mind, through observation, not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.

Radhanath Swami

Philosophical, Men, Organization

Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Coffins, Answers, Barbarians

Robert Green Ingersoll (1883). “Popular edition of col. Ingersoll's lectures. (Freethought publ. co.'s ed.).”

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