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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
What I hated most was seeing those priests and brothers getting so much pleasure out of inflicting pain. I wondered what was wrong with them.
I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year.
Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.
I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.
I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.
Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.
There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.
In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.
We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.
Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.
Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.
I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.
There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!
In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a member of this group has no clout with the state.
I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.
It is time for pastors, priests and all true believers to come out of the closet and stand for truth against the flood of evil.
Priests focus on the spiritual. As a lay person I could show people how to be good Catholics in the world.
It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind
Along the avenue of cypresses,
All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices
Of linen, go the chanting choristers,
The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .
History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.
For example, this, what I said about the bishops who move pedophile priests, the best thing they can do is resign. This isn't a dogmatic thing, but this is what I think.
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.
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with the Emperor even if he demands this.
In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.
How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests
...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones
I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.
The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.
Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.
Support your priests with your love and prayers, that they may always be shepherds after Christ’s heart
[The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness.
Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.
Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.
Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.
I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.
We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute.
It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests. I'm the new Barry Fitzgerald, except with a Mexican accent.
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.
As a Catholic, I am proud of the social mission of the church and its concerns for the poor and dispossessed, but I still personally would support women priests.
On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis.
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.
