Priests Quotes - Page 31

• God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the nakedness of need,- Where farmer folk in silence meet,- I turn my bell-unsummoned feet; I lay the critic's glass aside, I tread upon my lettered pride, And, lowest-seated, testify To the oneness of humanity; Confess the universal want, And share whatever Heaven may grant. He findeth not who seeks his own, The soul is lost that's saved alone.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Pride, Men, Oneness

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1869). “Among the Hills, and Other Poems”, p.73

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• When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to its hive. In the same way, the priest, having taken from the altar the Son of God (who is as the dew from heaven, and true son of Mary, flower of our humanity), gives him to you as delicious food.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Flower, Taken, Son

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• O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers, carries it to her hive; so the Priest, having taken the Saviour, God's Own Son, Who came down from Heaven, the Son of Mary, Who sprang up as earth's choicest flower, from the Altar, feeds you with that Bread of Sweetness and of all delight.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Children, Flower, Taken

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.173, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to avoid this is for the priest to be instant in prayer. If he is not, he will lose that touch of the supernatural, without which he has no right to be a priest at all.

  Arthur Middleton

  Prayer, Evil, Church

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• By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Knavery, Gulls, Knaves

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• If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

  Glenn Beck

  Justice, Bishops, Pushing

  Interview with Gary Kopycinski, enewspf.com. March 15, 2010.

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• Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Doe, Matter, Celibacy

  "Celibacy and the Priesthood: An Interview with the Future Pope Benedict XVI". Interview with Peter Seewald, www.catholicculture.org.

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• I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal,
  and you are your own temple
  and your own priest.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Believe, Goal, Temples

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• Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Training, World

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi.

  Ed Benguiat

  Jobs, Design, Way

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• A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

  Park Chan-wook

  Temptation, Desire, Encounters

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• In the spiritual reality of the church, neither Marcel Lefebvre, nor his bishops and priests, nor the people who frequent the SSPX chapels suffered or suffer excommunication. I believe history will record that the intent to impose such an excommunication was invalid and illicit.

  Malachi Martin

  Spiritual, Believe, Reality

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• To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in all its aspects, of work, and of play, in such a way that it may come to be what it was created to be, that which praises its maker by becoming perfect in its own way. In all this, there is room for both usefulness and beauty to take their due place, but differently according to differences of activity and object.

  Colin Gunton

  Play, Differences, Perfect

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• I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

  Federico Fellini

  Moral, Censorship, Judgment

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• I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Duke of Disobedience, Leader of the Freeloaders, Kaiser of Apostasy, Archbishop of Anarchy, the Big Cheese. Horrible titles any way you want to look at it. All code words for Outlaw.

  Bob Dylan

  Sick, Leader, Want

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• In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Italian, Museums

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the mullah, the rabbi, or whoever, to be responsible for your acts. In fact, you are the only one who is responsible.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Truth, Catholic

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• It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles; and it is honorable for us to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Men, Independence

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of the little ones. Let them sleep, then, in the arms of their nurses, the priests, and both be forgotten together.

  Thomas Paine

  Book, Sleep, Nurse

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.123

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• It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?

  Glenn Danzig

  Christian, Religious, Freedom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.

  Jonathan Davis

  Believe, Home, Gay

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• And his hands would plait the priest's entrails,
  For want of a rope, to strangle kings.

  Denis Diderot

  Kings, Hands, Rope

  "Poésies Diverses". Book by Denis Diderot, 1875.

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• The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Doctors, Gold, Cold

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• On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Philosopher, Les Miserable

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.2609, Delphi Classics

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• A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts you: God as a high school principal in a gray suit who never remembered your name but is always leafing unhappily through your files.

  Anne Lamott

  God, Love You, School

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