Priests Quotes - Page 30

• There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Respect, Soldier, Three

  "Intimate journals: Mon cœur mis à nu". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1864.

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• The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Believe, Literature, Crowds

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• The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but in persuading them to trust in the intercession of ministers or priests. The problem with this approach is that we cannot gain access to spirituality except through the medium of a fallible human being. If we want to see Tao, we need only open our eyes and trust what we see.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Spiritual, Teaching, Eye

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time.

  Maria Monk

  Night, Seminary, Day And Night

  Maria MONK (1836). “Awful Disclosures ... of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal. Revised with an appendix, etc”, p.148

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• If, as we have said, we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory of Peter and Paul, the supreme leaders of the pre-eminent company of the apostles? They are the fathers and guides of all Christians: apostles, martyrs, holy ascetics, priests, hierarchs, pastors and teachers.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Song, Teacher

  "The homilies".

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• The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

  Andrew Greeley

  Men, Catholic, Upset

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• In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

  Phil Donahue

  Boys, Two, Parent

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it.

  Clayton Christensen

  Christian, Views, Care

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• The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Temples, Orthodox, Eastern

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• The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It deter- mines what people will talk and think about-an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.

  Theodore White

  Party, Thinking, Tyrants

  Theodore Harold White (1973). “The making of the President, 1972”, Scribner

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• There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.

  Arthur Middleton

  Thinking, Church, Directors

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• Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Temples

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.4, Penguin

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• I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

  Jean Baudrillard

  Safe Keeping, Bankers, Banking

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.61, Verso

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• No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

  Henry Adams

  Strong, Reality, Men

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.101, Booklassic

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• No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

  John Milton

  Cells, Inspire, Pale

  John Milton (1844). “I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.”

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• It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Littles, Should, I Have Learned

  "By the Waters of Babylon". Post-apocalyptic short story by Stephen Vincent Benet (first published in "The Saturday Evening Post" as "The Place of the Gods"), July 31, 1937.

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• Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest, which "station in life" each had to leave, with brief notice.

  John Ruskin

  Levi's, Peter, Shore

  John Ruskin (1871). “Works. (Author's Ed.)”, p.165

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• The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Wise, Wisdom, Children

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.360

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• I can’t tell by looking in your eyes whether you’re a priest or a crook.

  Frank Perdue

  Eye, Crooks, I Can

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• The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Needs, Authorship, Secular

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.40, Рипол Классик

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• The priest invents and encourages every kind of suffering and distress so that man may not have the opportunity to become scientific, which requires a considerable degree of free time, health, and an outlook of confident positivism. Thus, the religious authorities work hard to make and keep people feeling sinful, unworthy, and unhappy.

  Robert Sheaffer

  Religious, Hard Work, Opportunity

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• In early Judaism, the priesthood was maintained within various families and passed down from father to son, thus necessitating marriage. But this is the old covenant, and even within this model priests were required to abstain from having sex with their wives during the time they served in the Temple. Catholics believe that priests fulfill this Temple relationship ever day - the Mass and the Eucharist mean they are serving in the Temple every day of their ordained lives.

  Michael Coren

  Sex, Father, Believe

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• When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.

  Dennis Lehane

  Wise, Children, Sheep

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• As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.

  Bob Gunton

  Father, School, Years

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• A priest in New York City was arrested on gun possession. These days, you better be happy that the bulge in his pocket is a .38.

  David Letterman

  New York, Gun, Cities

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