Quotes About Priest

Okay, that's intensely interesting, Duvall said. So you're a priest of the Forshan religion? Which schism? The leftward schism, and no, not a priest. Couldn't handle the celibacy? Leftward priests aren't required to be celibate, Dahl said, but considering I was the only human at the seminary, I had celibacy thrust upon me, if you will. Some people wouldn't let that stop them, Duvall said. You haven't seen a Forshan seminary student up close, Dahl said. Also, I don't swing xeno.

It is a fact verified and recorded in many histories that soul capable of the greatest good is also capable of the greatest evil. Who is there more impious than backsliding priest? Who more carnal than a recent virgin? This, however, may be a matter of appearance.

The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

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

She has an astral quality, even something quite vatic. You grasp my meaning—the poet veering toward the status of priest.

We are glad you have been ordained as the first priest of your people. Now you can help us with their problem.' Tagoona asked, 'What is a problem?' and the white man said, 'Tagoona, if I held you by your heels from a third-story window, you would have a problem.' Tagoona considered this long and carefully. Then he said, 'I do not think so. If you saved me, all would be well. If you dropped me, nothing would matter. It is you who would have the problem.

He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.

No wonder Satan is furious. . . . Think of all that he had already given up. He could no longer be a prophet who could speak for God. He could no longer be a priest who would direct worship to God. He who wished to be like God has ended up the most unlike Him. In short, it was all loss and no gain.

Church teaching stated the conditions under which citizens could kill tyrants. Catholic doctrine permitted capital punishment; and though a priest himself could not shed blood, a Christian knight could wield the sword of justice at the bidding of a priest.

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"

In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

As a priest I'm to provide a vessel through which God's will is executed on earth.

Christ will remain a priest and king though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.

To put it more plainly, suppose a small group of earnest Christian laymen were taken prisoner and settled in the middle of the desert without any episcopally ordained priest among them; and they then agreed to choose one of themselves, whether married or not, and endow him with the office of baptizing, administering the sacrament, pronouncing absolution, and preaching; that man would be as truly a priest as if he had been ordained by all the bishops and the popes.

His deep voice rose with the conviction reminiscent of a newly ordained priest. "Do we choose those to be judged or those who may cast a stone? And if we do, are we not committing a sin far greater than the sinner? Are we not, by doing so, the greater sinners?

I shall always be a priest of love.

A choir of pink-cheeked boys lift their voices as a priest seems to pull the music from their throats with the urging of his hands.

Even if it's not a vision," Pauline said, "it could still be a gift. There could be other kinds of knowing." A chill clutched my spine. "What did you say?" She repeated her words, almost the same ones the priest had used that morning.

When I was eight years old," the priest-king confessed, "I wanted to be a god." The holy man looked around the ragged tent. "Perhaps this is my punishment, but between you and me, I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.

While the Italian mob's heyday in Cleveland was during the sixties and seventies, Youngstown remained an epicenter for decades longer, featuring constant FBI attention as well as the occasional car bombing or sniper takedown of a major player. During one attempt to pay off the town's mayor, a priest was involved as a money handler. Ties run deep in Youngstown

I'm not the police. There are no cameras, or recorders, no notebook, no witnesses. I'm not a priest. I can't take your confession. I don't care if your guilty. I don't care if you feel guilty. I only want the truth.

And did you know that Valentine's Day originally started when this emperor like a million years ago made marriage illegal because he thought it made soldiers weak? This priest—Valentine—married people in secret anyway, and he ended up having his head cut off because of it. So the first Valentine was some guy's head. There's some history for you. It's sort of perfect, when you think about it. Isn't falling in love a lot like losing your head?