Top 765 Parish Priest Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

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.

I went to the little church in the country after ten years in the city. And part of my dream was to sit on people's front porches with glasses of iced tea, and all that happened. I was able to send birthday cards to everyone in the parish and able to know everyone who was there on Sunday by name. And that was what I'd been looking for.

Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.

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

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

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

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 daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

We live across the street from our Roman Catholic parish, 39 steps away from the holy water, so close that the church bells mark every moment of our day. We wake up to the pealing, we pause several times a day to hear the beautiful songs ring out.

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

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.

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

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.

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.

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

The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.

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

To have Judas Priest together? It's a real adventure, and we always feel excited when it's time to create a new record.

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

Ill be playing a priest in Chavez Cage Of Glory, which is a fight movie.

No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.

If, at a party, I say I'm a poet, people have a hard time responding, almost as if I'd said I'm a priest.

The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

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

The why is plain as way to parish church: He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not, The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.

I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

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

The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

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.

The theater is the 'church' and when I'm on that stage I am the Priest/Pastor, it is a pure spiritual journey for me.

Trying to do Christianity properly is tough. Life as a priest is rigorous and disciplined. It involves sacrifices.

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

I think we all appreciate it now just how lucky we are to be in a band like Judas Priest.

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

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.

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.

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

We have a priest at Inter Milan and a chapel at the training ground. That is where I was baptised and confirmed into the church.

God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

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

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

I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

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.

So, our vocation is to go, not just to one parish, not just to one diocese, but all over the world; and do what? To set people's hearts on fire, to do what the Son of God did. He came to set the world on fire in order to inflame it with His love.

My father was a priest, so it was natural for us to read the 'Ramayana' and inculcate its values in our life.

And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.

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

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

I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.

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

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

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