Priests Quotes - Page 3

• I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.

  Frank McCourt

  Ghetto, Thinking, Church

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• The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

  Alfred Loisy

  Men, Support, Truth Is

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• I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years, from eleven to fourteen, and trained to be a Catholic priest. So I was very steeped in all that.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Strong, Years, Catholic

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• Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

  Robert Genn

  People, Religion, Wells

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• The question before the human race is, Whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether Priests and Kings shall rule it by fictitious Miracles? Or, in other words, whether authority is originally in the People? Or whether it has descended for 1800 Years in a succession of Popes and Bishops, or brought down from Heaven by the Holy Ghost in the form of a Dove, in a Phial of holy Oil?

  John Adams

  Kings, Law, Oil

  John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1971). “The Adams-Jefferson letters: the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”, Touchstone

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• I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Atheist, Support, Should

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

  William Robertson Smith

  Religious, People, Religion

  William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.17, Transaction Publishers

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• That is the first thing to learn - not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself. Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Lying, Book, Ignorance

  "Freedom From The Known". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1969.

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• Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of communism. Say 'Padres' and they look around for a priest.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Baseball, Thinking, Talking

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• Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Sin

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• This book will expose the sins of the fathers and the vicious abuse of the Jewish people. 'In Defense of Israel' will shake Christian theology. It scripturally proves that the Jewish people as a whole did not reject Jesus as Messiah. It will also prove that Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah. It will prove that there was a 'Calvary conspiracy' between Rome, the high priest, and Herod to execute Jesus as an insurrectionist too dangerous to live. Since Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah, how can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?

  John Hagee

  Christian, Jesus, Father

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• I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.

  Peter Jurasik

  Ideas, Catholic, Becoming

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 18, 2002.

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• Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.

  Patricia Heaton

  Christian, Kindness, Trying

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• This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as "I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world."

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Wise, Simple, Men

  "My View of the World". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1961.

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• People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

  John Ashcroft

  Atheist, People, Atheism

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• In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Ambition, Mind, Fiction

  Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843). “The Works”, p.199

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• Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course.

  Charlton Heston

  Silly, Evil, Catholic

  Interview with Ken Masugi and Colleen Ryor, ashbrook.org. October 6, 1995.

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• I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.

  James F. Cooper

  Book, Men, Doubt

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• Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.

  John Wycliffe

  Bishops, Crowns, Emperor

  "Typical English Churchmen". Book by John Neville Figgis, p. 15, 1909.

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• Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

  William Blake

  Love, Secret Places, Feet

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.822, Pearson Education

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• I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

  Broderick Crawford

  Trouble, Mass, Ask Me

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• I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.

  Rowan Williams

  Jesus, Names, Perspective

  "New archbishop issues warning on Iraq" by Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2002.

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• And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

  Thomas Keneally

  Educational, Parent, Church

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• The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Age, Devil, Looks

  Lon Milo Duquette (1997). “Angels, Demons & Gods of the New Millenium”, p.105, Weiser Books

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