A Quote by John Heywood

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

John Heywood

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Clerk Ever Now Old Old Proverb Parish Parish Priest Priest Proverb See True Well

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John Heywood
English - Dramatist
1497 - 1580

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

O my dear parishioners, let us endeavor to get to heaven! There we shall see God. How happy we shall feel! If the parish is converted we shall go there in procession with the parish priest at the head. . . We must get to heaven! What a pity it would be if some of you were to find yourselves on the other side!

Jean-Marie Le Pen

When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now. This is why you should ask your parish priest to have perpetual adoration in your parish. I beg the Blessed Mother to touch the hearts of all parish priests that they may have perpetual Eucharistic adoration in their parishes, and that it may spread throughout the entire world

Mother Teresa

It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.

Pope Benedict XVI

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

Martin Scorsese

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

Justin Welby

I am very much looking forward to being a parish priest.

David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes

My parish priest regularly rebuilt me in counseling sessions with remarkable and simple advice.

Michael Caputo

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

John Keats

As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is an old Italian proverb about the nature of translation: "Traddutore, traditore!" This means simply, "Translators-traitors!" Of course, as you can see, something is lost in the translation of this pithy expression: there is great similarity in both the spelling and the pronunciation of the original saying, but these get diluted once they are put in English dress. Even the translation of this proverb illustrates its truth!

Daniel Wallace

I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.

Andrew Greeley

I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I believe to be the call of God.

David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes

The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

Plutarch

Arrow! Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and I have always recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true king under the Mountain, go now and speed well!