Quotes About Priest

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

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

Actually, acting turned out to be the perfect job for me, because I had a lot of different interests. I thought about being a priest at one point. I thought about being a teacher. I thought about being a lawyer. But I think acting is probably the best job for me.

Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

I have blessed hands. I got my hands blessed by the priest, and I am able to give out Holy Communion at Mass. It is lovely to be part of it.

Among all the characters mentioned in the Bible, none is more mysterious than Melchisedec; said to be without father, mother, or earthly kin, and holding the dual office of king and priest.

For the film 'Saat Khoon Maaf,' which was adapted from my story 'Susanna's Seven Husbands,' I did collaborate on the screenplay. I even took a small role in the film, of a priest.

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.

It's very important to respect the conversation between a priest and the members of their flock.

I did the good priest and the bad and felt that I am getting stereotyped in priest roles. I am not picking them anymore.

I'll be playing a priest in 'Chavez Cage Of Glory,' which is a fight movie.

I don't miss being a priest. The fulfillment factor in matrimony is far greater.

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic... I'm very faithful.

When I write lyrics for Priest, I'm writing them for Priest. I'm not writing them for me.

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

Dostoyevsky was an influence - what's his name, the saintly priest in 'The Brothers Karamazov,' Father Zossima... 'Kiss the earth,' he'd say. Love everything.

In high school, my principal was a priest and my assistant basketball coach. We were close. In high school, I would talk to him a little bit.

Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn't there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya, for being a Catholic priest. Isn't that interesting? Everybody else made the reunion but that guy.

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.

Father Ted' would be impossible to remake it in America. The whole situation of being Irish and being a priest in Ireland is so different than anything else in America.