Priests Quotes - Page 27

• There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.

  Gene Robinson

  Gay, Church, Bishops

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• The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Men, Long, World

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

  John Dryden

  Children, Lying, Believe

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 3, l. 389

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• A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Artist, Feelings, Acting

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.216, A&C Black

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• One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties' what might have been the golden age of this speciality - photographers worked largely as the possessors of special and arcane skills, like the ancient priests who practiced and monopolized the skills of pictography or carving or manuscript illumination. In those halcyon days the photographer enjoyed a privileged status.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Illumination, Media

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• Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Atheist, Sex

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• What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Atheist, Thinking

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Aaron Ridley, Judith Norman (2005). “Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings”, p.192, Cambridge University Press

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• The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

  George Meredith

  Country, Fighting, Men

  George Meredith, William Maxse Meredith (1912). “1844-1881”

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• In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Children, Hypocrite

  "Pope Francis known for simplicity, humility". Associated Press Interview, www.cbc.ca. March 13, 2013.

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• In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those Churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

  Pope Francis

  Catholic, Greek, Church

  "In 2012 interview, Pope Francis (then-Cardinal Bergoglio) reveals secret of celibacy". Interview with Rabbi Abraham Skorka, aleteia.org. March 18, 2013.

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• The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.

  Pope Francis

  People, Community, Soul

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

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• My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.

  Wyclef Jean

  Eye, Grandfather, Spirituality

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• The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

  Jesse Jackson

  President, Sacred, Prophet

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• How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.

  Harry Houdini

  Secret, Church, Records

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.34, 谷月社

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• If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Want, Ifs, Loses

  "All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men". Book by George Gurdjieff, 1963.

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• I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Birthday, Father, Boys

  "Black In Latin America" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

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• When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

  Pope Francis

  Bishops, May, Christ

  "Pope Francis Celebrates First Mass With Cardinals In Sistine Chapel" by Crispian Balmer, Philip Pullella, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2013.

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• Everyone say to himself: 'When was the last time I went to confession?' And if it has been a long time, don't lose another day! Go, the priest will be good. And Jesus, (will be) there, and Jesus is better than the priests - Jesus receives you. He will receive you with so much love! Be courageous, and go to confession.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Love Is, Long

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• Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Men

  Martin Luther (1883). “First Principles of the Reformation, Or, The Ninety-five Theses and the Three Primary Works of Martin Luther”

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• And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Men, Flesh, Human Nature

  Saint John Chrysostom (1996). “A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Chrysostom: On the priesthood; Ascetic treatises; Select homilies and letters; Homilies on the statutes”, Burns & Oates

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• I remember coming back from training one day and Simon Poidevin was talking to a priest. I thought...this was going to be some rough encounter because there's Poido getting the last rites before the test's even started

  Phil Kearns

  Talking, Training, One Day

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• BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Etna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Block, Wine, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.26, University of Georgia Press

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• I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on their learning will learn, I trust, to listen to their priests for the true interpretations.' The Merlin smiled gently. 'I cannot join you in that wish, brother. I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Brother, Fall, Men

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• He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining the most suitable day for seeding, lovers loving, mothers nursing their children—and all of this was not worthy of one look from his eye, it all lied, it all stank, it all stank of lies, it all pretended to be meaningful and joyful and beautiful, and it all was just concealed putrefaction. The world tasted bitter. Life was torture

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Mother

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• Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don’t have much faith in them and I am no exception – especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far to relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they’re scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Strong, Mean, Home

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.57, A&C Black

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