Priests Quotes - Page 35

• The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

  Henry Miller

  Everyday, Citizens, Legal System

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• I asked [Guadalupe] for the world, for peace, so many things. I asked forgiveness, I asked that the Church grows healthy, I asked for the Mexican people. And another thing I asked a lot for: that priests be true priests, and sisters true sisters, and bishops true bishops. As the Lord wants.

  Pope Francis

  People, Mexican, Healthy

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Compassion, Genuine, Feels

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• A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Invisible, Realms, Allegory

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• I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had a big linen-supply business and I considered working for him. What dawned on me was: 'If I'm an actor, I get to do the fun parts of every job!' Without having to go to four years of law school.

  John C. Reilly

  Jobs, Fun, Father

  "John C. Reilly: this much I know" by Emma John, www.theguardian.com. February 09, 2013.

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• Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

  John Polkinghorne

  Years, Class, Village

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• I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the 'circle the wagons' mentality revictimized the innocent, coddled the guilty, and made matters worse for everyone.

  Christine Pelosi

  Sex, Circles, Catholic

  "Penn State Knew and Looked the Other Way" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2012.

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• You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

  Pope John Paul II

  Leader, Political, Religion

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• Not so much anymore but some years ago in my homeland there was a habit, something called 'casamiento de apuro,' a marriage in haste because the baby is coming and to cover socially the honor of the family. There, they weren't free and it happened many times this marriage is null. As a bishop I forbade my priests to do this.

  Pope Francis

  Baby, Years, Honor

  "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight interview from Mexico to Rome". www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I think you've got good people and bad people in everything you do. If you start making a big deal of it, then it's a problem. It's like in life. We've got bad doctors and lawyers. We've got bad priests! We don't target every priest and say he's bad. You have to go to church and you have to go see some doctors. Some people have to be good.

  Master P

  Thinking, Doctors, People

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• For example, this, what I said about the bishops who move pedophile priests, the best thing they can do is resign. This isn't a dogmatic thing, but this is what I think.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Thinking, Example

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.

  Wendell Phillips

  Fighting, Government, Ideas

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.14

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• Sectarian priests cry out concerning me, and ask, "Why is it this babbler gains so many followers, and retains them?" I answer, It is because I possess the principle of love. All I can offer the world is a good heart and a good hand.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heart, Hands, Principles

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• But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick and light and . . .

  Graham Greene

  Angel, Light, Ugly

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Collected Edition: The power and the glory”

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• How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilization--it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.

  Graham Greene

  Beautiful, Children, Home

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Power and the Glory”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?" "Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are." "What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?" "Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Egypt, Zombie

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• In Islam, there is no priesthood and each person stands before God, like in the daily prayers, without an intermediary. That's in contrast to Christianity, where during the Eucharist, a priest has to officiate and the priest functions as a link - at least in Catholic Christianity - between the laity and God.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Prayer, Catholic, Islam

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Hate, Literature, Realism

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• The high priests and priestesses taught the children the secret meditation techniques, along with methods and ways of living that would increase their pranic levels and help them develop their psychic skills.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Psychics, Skills

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

  William Osler

  Nursing, Blessing, Nurse

  Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses 'Nurse and Patient'

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• The high-priests and priestesses of Atlantis had discovered many of the deepest secrets of the universe. They had come to understand all about reincarnation, karma, and the innermost workings of the Enlightenment Cycle.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Secret, Enlightenment

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• one life would not suffice, mine especially. To touch everything and leave nothing after oneself! Ah! my God! I hope better than that. Ah! I am very cowardly, and under the blow of such a terror I am ready to believe in priests.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Believe, Blow, Life And Death

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• money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order of your being, and seared you through and up and down. Then only would he eventually leave you, but nothing of you except an exhausted wreck, lying prone and wondering who are you.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Lying, Order, Wrecks

  Ama Ata Aidoo (1987). “The Dilemma of a Ghost ; Anowa: Two Plays”, Prentice Hall

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• Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria or your own unfeminine inadequacy. Women have learned to submit to pain by hearing authority figures - doctors, priests, psychiatrists - tell us that what we feel is not pain.

  Naomi Wolf

  Pain, Real, Believe

  "The Beauty Myth". Book by Naomi Wolf, 1990.

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• If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses.

  Federico Fellini

  People, Judging, Hypocrisy

  "I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon". Book edited by Damian Pettigrew, December 1, 2003.

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