Quotes About Priest

The physical universe is sacred and just as 'spiritual' as any 'soul' that priest and theologians might think up.

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

The Emperor tells us that civilization will only achieve perfection when the last stone of the last church falls upon the last priest.

This book is an introduction to logic, as contemporary logicians now understand the subject. It does not attempt to be a textbook, however.

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

He would never swing the thurible before the tabernacle as priest. His destiny was to be elusive of social or religious orders. The wisdom of the priest's appeal did not touch him to the quick. He was destined to learn his own wisdom apart from others or to learn the wisdom of others himself wandering among the snares of the world.

The duties of the priest towards the Eucharist and towards the secrecy of the confessional seemed so grave to me that I wondered how anybody had ever found in himself the courage to undertake them; and I was not surprised when he told me that the fathers of the Church had written books as thick as the Post Office Directory and as closely printed as the law notices in the newspaper, elucidating all these intricate questions.

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Then it was time for Holy Communion. Seamus was introduced as a "distinguished priest all the way from the Holy Name parish in New York City." I could see that it sounded great to others. But I still saw the old man who made fart noises when I tried to discipline the kids.

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

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.

Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.

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

Now by the sorrows of the souls in hell, Who first lays hand on me, I'll be his priest

As, when king Uzziah would offer incense without a priest, God was angry with him, and struck him with leprosy (2 Chron 26:20). Just so, when we do not come to God in and through Christ, we offer up incense to him without a priest, and what can we expect but severe rebukes?

There's no part of the ceremony where the priest, acting in the place of God, warns the guests not to murder the bridegroom because it might jeopardize the succession.

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

I aint heard no voice, he said. When it stops, said Tobin, you'll know you've heard it all your life. Is that right? Aye. The kid turned the leather in his lap. The expriest watched him. At night, said Tobin, when the horses are grazing and the company is asleep, who hears them grazing? Dont nobody hear them if they're asleep. Aye. And if they cease their grazing who is it that wakes? Every man. Aye, said the expriest. Every man.

Journeyman priest or apprentice priest, said the judge. Men of god and men of war have strange affinities. I'll not secondsay you in your notions, said Tobin. Dont ask it. Ah Priest, said the judge. What could I ask of you that you've not already given?

Ah Priest, said the judge. What could I ask of you that you've not already given?

On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business and none of mine. If you had sentenced one hundred and sixty men to death and seen around eighty of them swing, then maybe at the last minute you would feel the need for some stronger medicine than the Methodists could make.

She was a decent storyteller, but a crap liar, for all the sense that made.

Adrian had a Guinness because I guess he felt like drinking a loaf of bread or something. That's what it smelled like, anyway.

I don't see why not," I all but snapped at him. "His body was experimented upon, and there are records of it. What else would you call it?" "I don't know. Necropsy?