Quotes About Friar

A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.

Martin Luther was a friar as well as a professor. When a man in his position accused the church of moneygrubbing, people were ready to listen.

During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.

When I was doing 'Tales from Hollywood' at the National, I was invited to dinner by the choreographer, Kenneth MacMillan. He told me I had the heart of a dancer and asked me if I'd like to come on at the end of 'Romeo and Juliet' as a friar. I said I'd love to, but sadly, MacMillan died shortly after.

An assassin!' exclaimed one of the Englishmen; 'an assassin and at liberty!' An Italian gentleman, who was of the party, smiled at the astonishment of his friend. 'He has sought sanctuary here,' replied the friar; 'within these walls he may not be hurt.' 'Do your altars, then, protect the murderer?' said the Englishman. 'He could find shelter no where else,' answered the friar meekly.

It was a friar of orders grayWalked forth to tell his beads.

Martín de Córdoba, a distinguished Augustinian friar, disagreed strongly. In a book he wrote to guide Isabella in the exercise of authority, The Garden of Noble Ladies, he claimed that it was ignorant or old-fashioned to 'believe it evil when some kingdom or other polity falls to a woman's government … I, as I will declare, hold the contrary opinion.

In the 1520s, dozens of free imperial cities are the sites of an aggressive, disruptive Reformation movement as unexpected as an Augustinian friar becoming a publishing sensation and celebrity papal critic.7

I know nothing of any phantom,' replied Aethelfrith. 'What sort of phantom is it presumed to be?' 'Why,' replied the merchant, 'it takes the form of a great giant of a bird. Men hereabouts call it King Raven.' 'Do they indeed?' wondered the friar, much intrigued. 'What does it look like - this giant bird?' The merchant stared at him in disbelief. 'By the rood, man! Are you dim? It looks like a thumping great raven .

A Frere ther was, a wantowne and a merye.

The friar organized a hunt. But the Alchemist was long gone -- lost among the townspeople like one bad penny melting into a puddle of lead.

Friar Giovanni of Plano Carpini, a sixty-five-year-old cleric, who had been one of the disciples of Saint Francis of Assisi, arrived as the agent and spy for Pope Innocent IV, commissioned to find out as much as possible about these strange people who had threatened Europe.