Top 780 Judas Priest Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I knew it was wrong, but I thought gambling was a venial sin. That's why I didn't confess it to a priest until after I was caught.

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

I was born in a temple to a priest father, in a place like Benaras. So, my upbringing has been influenced by such surroundings.

Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ...than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office

Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.

We're not a band that takes any kind of political stance. That's not what we're about as Priest. But we're observers of what's going on around us in the world.

In the economy of Heaven, God does not send thunder if a still, small voice is enough, or a prophet if a priest can do the job.

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.

For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

There were a lot of things I thought of doing as I was growing up, from becoming a singer to a priest to a pilot.

The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.

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.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

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

For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the infallibility of the pope.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.

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

Once you start to look at the gospels one by one, you realize that followers of Jesus were trying to understand what had happened after he was arrested and killed. They knew Judas had handed him over to the people who arrested him.

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my atheism.

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

To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman, or healer.

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

Confessions are not processed or analysed; they're told in a moment of desperation to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime.

I was really talkative as a child. The priest used to pray for me not to talk so much because I was distracting the other kids.

Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.

Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.

My husband and I have been married for 15 years. He is a priest in the Church of Sweden. I have a faith, but it's not so formal. We made our peace with that.

I love what I'm doing. It's my life. When it's time to go, I'll probably be fighting to get out of the casket. I'll be yelling at the priest instead of a referee.

Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?

Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria.

Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.

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.

No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.

I was fat and ugly and never 'wanted to hook up - for a gay guy that's unheard of. I was like a monk or a priest.

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

It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of faith that absolutely supports the church.

Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

I thought you had to be humble to become a saint, but a priest told me it takes all kinds to make it to heaven.

If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God!

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.

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

Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

My priest tells me i should not date a mormon but im just too in love with you that i'm willing to take risks