Quotes About Priest

Auden is an Ausländer (foreigner), a Herr Professor (Smith, Swarthmore, Oxford, etc.) and sometimes Herr Dichter (Mr. Poet). This, by definition, means that the only Kirchstetten Inländers with whom he can associate socially are "the schoolmaster and his wife, the doctor and his wife, and the new priest—a young man whose name is Schickelgruber!* I've recently introduced Father Schickelgruber to his first martini. It was a huge success.

We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician.

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today.

horses which drew the hearse, and far more ineffectual. Every open grave I had to stand beside was a gateway to knowledge which nobody other than I appeared to realise was there to be tapped. As mourners dropped earth on the coffin it sounded very much like knocking on a door, and I imagined how terrified the priest and his little congregation would be if any opened in the earth.

Do you think my husband and his soldiers will be overly upset with me? The priest broke into a wide grin. I'll stand by your side when we find out, he said. I would be honored to escort you to your husband. The priest took hold of Johanna's arm. She didn't notice. I expect them to be a little upset at first, she explained. But only just a little. Yes, he agreed. Tell me, lass. When was your last confession? Why do you ask? It's preferred to receive absolution before you meet your Maker.

a priest cannot acknowledge the sin or the sinner outside of the confessional. The seal of silence is sacred.

Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord. Was Father Tom thinking about vengeance now? The possibility amused him. Perhaps the next time he went to confession he would ask him. A priest should understand. That was his job, wasn't it? To understand and forgive? Maybe understanding would come with death.

a priest cannot acknowledge the sin or the sinner outside of the confessional.

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.

No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.

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

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.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

...yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence...

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.

Nay,--conduct hath the loudest tongue. The voice Is but an instrument on which the priest May play what tune he pleases. In the deed, The unequivocal authentic deed, We find sound argument, and read the heart.

He would have none be without this sword any more than without the girdle, helmet, and the rest, &c., though this I know will not please the Papists, who would have this sword of the word, like that of Goliath, laid up out of their reach, and that in the priest's keeping also.

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

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

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

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.

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

Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.