Priests Quotes - Page 9

• A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special way to open themselves fully to serving others as Christ did by embracing the gift of celibacy.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Temptation, Special, Needs

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• Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further careful evaluation of the choice of the Latin church to connect celibacy to ordained priesthood.

  Angelo Scola

  Father, Latin, Offering

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• It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehensibility of that suffering in what it does to those who suffer. The priest shares in these struggles of his suffering people, the uncertainties it brings, the sense of divine abandonment it induces, and the loneliness caused.

  Arthur Middleton

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Struggle

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• Some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar.

  Rafael Benitez

  People, Mountain, Sugar

  "Roy Hodgson apologises to predecessor Rafael Benítez over Liverpool criticism". www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2010.

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• Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests.

  Cheech Marin

  Mexican, Guy, Yeah

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• So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.

  Thomas Keneally

  Lasts, Becoming, Steps

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• I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Talking, Catholic, Belief

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• Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.

  Danny Pudi

  Thinking, Catholic, Able

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2010.

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• Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession and sowed the seeds for its own revision? If Simpson had reached final truth, he either would have been a priest or would have chosen a dull profession. The history of life cannot be a dull profession.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Life, Science, Men

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• It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.

  Trevor Phillips

  Men, Doors, Law

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• I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Spiritual, Emotional, Attachment

  "Q&A with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf". Religion News Service Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.

  Ryan Stiles

  Shirts, Confession, Backwards

  "Whose Line is it Anyway?" with Drew Carey (Episode 201), www.oocities.org. October 7, 1999.

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• It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.

  Glenn Tipton

  Musical, Musician, Band

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• Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rain, Bird, Tree

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• What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

  David Levithan

  Girl, Teenage, White

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• The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?

  Tanith Lee

  Humble, Pulpit, Teach

  Tanith Lee (1997). “The Book of the Beast”, p.25, The Overlook Press

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• If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the priest could not use, and it always happened that god wanted what his agents liked.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Use, Agents, Lambs

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1901). “Discussions”

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• You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.

  Joanne Harris

  Thinking, Make You Think, Fasting

  Joanne Harris (2012). “Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)”, p.447, Random House

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• The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word and Sacrament that which is humanity's hope and salvation, the divine energy in which he lives with Christ in the Father through the Holy Spirit, identified but not accommodated to the world Christ seeks to save.

  Arthur Middleton

  Father, Humanity, Energy

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• ... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I have contemplated their order from the Magi of the East to the Saints of the West and I have found no difference of character, but of more or less caution, in proportion to their information or ignorance on whom their interested duperies were to be played off. Their sway in New England is indeed formidable. No mind beyond mediocrity dares there to develop itself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Lying, Father

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• Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

  A. J. Hartley

  Strong, Battle, World

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• Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. Subculture values will proliferate to such a bewildering extent that a whole new class of professionals will arise to control them. Such a Transmutation Technology will deal in fashions, in ways of being. Lifestyle consultants will become the new priests of our civilizations. They will be the new magicians.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Fashion, Technology, Civilization

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.90, Weiser Books

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• The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

  Bill Gaede

  World, Modern, Mathematician

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• The theory of evolution is impossible. At base, in spirit of appearances, no one any longer believes in it... Evolution is a kind of dogma which the priests no longer believe, but which they maintain for their people.

  Paul Lemoine

  Believe, Theory Of Evolution, People

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• My job isn't to go around judging people. Priests are meant to teach love and forgiveness. That to me is the essence of being a Christian. And trying to find that love and forgiveness in ourselves and others every day should be a challenge that we want to achieve.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Christian, Jobs, Essence

  Rosamund Lupton (2010). “Sister”, p.101, Hachette UK

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