Priests Quotes - Page 7

• Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

  Ernest Renan

  Jesus, Humanity, Enemy

  Ernest Renan (1864). “The Life of Jesus”, p.90

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• Despair makes priests and friars.

  Martin Luther

  Despair, Friars

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• You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Feet, Air, Honest

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• The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that of oppressing and exploiting the masses, of defending the oppressors and the exploiters: and it's principal, characteristic and indispensable instruments are the police agent and the tax-collector, the soldier and the gaoler - to whom must be invariably added the trader in lies, be he priest of schoolmaster, remunerated or protected by the government to enslave minds and make them docilely accept the yoke.

  Errico Malatesta

  Lying, Government, Police

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• I got a imam, I got a rabbi, I got a priest, I got a reverend - I got 'em all. But I don't want to be holier-than-thou. I want to help everybody and still get some (sex).

  Mike Tyson

  Sex, Ems, Want

  "Tyson: 'My whole life has been a waste'". Interview with Jon Saraceno, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 2, 2005.

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• The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged in a delicate interplay and exchange with the moon; and it is this of which the poet sings.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Philosophy, Heart, Winter

  "Japan, the Beautiful and Myself". Yasunari Kawabata's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 12, 1968.

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• Nowas you all know, this week, Pope Benedict told Vatican Radio—you know, Vatican Radio, playing the hits from the 8th century, 9th century and today—Benedict told them he was going to resign because the Church needs a fresh, young face, somewhere other than a priest's lap.

  Bill Maher

  Church, Needs, Lap

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• If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we'd be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today - not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.

  Bill Hybels

  Today, Speak, Christianity

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• Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be a textbook of science, the old controversy between religion and science vanishes . . . The doctrine of the Trinity is much more abstruse than anything in relativity or quantum mechanics; but, being necessary for salvation, the doctrine is stated in the Bible. If the theory of relativity had also been necessary for salvation, it would have been revealed to Saint Paul or to Moses.

  Georges Lemaitre

  Doe, Saint, Doctrine

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• But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!

  John Heywood

  Clerks, Forget, Wells

  John Heywood (1908). “Two Tudor "shrew" Plays - (1) John John the Husband, Tib His Wife, and Sir John the Priest, by John Heywood (c1533): And (2) Tom Tiler and His Wife, Anonymous (c1551)”

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• The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

  Orson Scott Card

  Choices, Soul, Responsible

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.255, Macmillan

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• Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Forever, Preaching

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• When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

  Karl Kraus

  Religion, Atheism, Society

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• Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.

  Neil Postman

  Worry Less, Discipline, President

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.98, Penguin

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• I wanted passionately to be a priest.

  A. N. Wilson

  Wanted

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• Many priests and employees at temples work for pay. No one should judge religion on the basis of the shortcomings of such workers. We should frame suitable rules and regulations for preventing them from falling prey to material temptations. The true guiding spirits of religion are those who engage in selfless service while dedicating their entire lives to attaining the vision of God.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Fall, Judging

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• The priest is the personification of falsehood.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Personification, Falsehood

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• Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.

  Andrew Greeley

  Country, Organization, Membership

  Andrew M. Greeley (2004). “Priests: A Calling in Crisis”, p.125, University of Chicago Press

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• I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us would love to call us priestesses. They can call us all the names in the world -- it's better than being invisible.

  Carter Heyward

  Names, Religion, World

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• Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

  Wes Bentley

  Church, Spirituality, Preacher

  "There Be Dragons Review, and Interview With Wes Bentley". Interview with Richard Karpala, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2011.

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• We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling.

  Paul Arden

  Smell, People, Car

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• All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?

  Ted Dekker

  Spiritual, Religious, Real

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• Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

  Karl Marx

  Museums, Civilization, Dancer

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Collected works”

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• Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

  George Santayana

  Long, Poetry, Ancient

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.58, MIT Press

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• I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of God exists Who would damn me for not working out a deal with Him, then that is unfortunate. I should not care to spend eternity in the company of such a person.

  Mary McCarthy

  Work Out, Soul, Mind

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