Top 765 Parish Priest Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.

But the unfaithful priest, what tongue Enough, shall execrate?

I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.

The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry. She wanted to be a nun. She hoped I would be a priest and saved to give me an education while my friends plaited rope and trailed after the plough. I can't be a priest because although my heart is as loud as hers I can pretend no answering riot. I have shouted to God and the Virgin, but they have not shouted back and I'm not interested in the still small voice. Surely a god can meet passion with passion? She says he can. Then he should.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

My life is a tsunami of inspirations. Number one is that I really do just love my BBQ. I mean it's the sustenance of mankind. You know, the animal rights of people, if they had their way, 99% of the human race would parish because we sustain ourselves with dead stuff on the grill.

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.

I can’t tell by looking in your eyes whether you’re a priest or a crook.

I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.

Asked if he knew how important Stardust would be, Mitchell Parish said he did have a gut feeling that this was a momentous one. But had no idea it would become a standard. You don't sit down and write a standard, he explained. A standard evolves.

To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest.

Compared to what some of the young comics use for material today, I'm a priest.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

I would love, one day before this is all over, to do a Western. That, and to play a priest.

A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

It's very important to respect the conversation between a priest and the members of their flock.

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

And in more than half the pictures, she isn't looking at the camera; she's looking at him. Not the way I would look at Ben Parish, all squishy around the eyes. She looks at Evan fiercely, like, This here? It's mine

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

In the church I am very accountable, to the parish and the deanery; in the media thing I am not really accountable, I am out there on my own as a sort of busy, recognised religious person.

We persevere because we are preserved by our High Priest's intercession.

The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.

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

...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

I'll be playing a priest in 'Chavez Cage Of Glory,' which is a fight movie.

If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

I don't miss being a priest. The fulfillment factor in matrimony is far greater.

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

Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.

To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest

Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.

Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.

I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.

The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

I remember in one parish a terrible row over the ideal size of mince pies, and in another two great ladies dashing trays of pancakes to the vicarage floor in a controversy over whether to roll or to fold. But the real arena for food combat is television.

Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research.

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!

Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration with exposition needs a great push. People ask me: 'What will convert America and save the world?' My answer is prayer. What we need is for every parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in holy hours of prayer.

I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest.

Don't you understand, mister, you are royalty and God has chosen you to be priest of your home?

Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England

He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear.

It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.