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Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance. — Thomas Paine

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. — Jose Marti

The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well. — Hilaire Belloc

Priests know how to bury the worst scandals. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong. — Graham Greene

Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants. — Alfonso X Of Castile

All Believers are Priests — Martin Luther

But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk! — John Heywood

Men tend to die when you slide steel beneath their skin and wiggle it around. Even priests. — Brian Staveley

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors. — Henry Ward Beecher

Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed. — Robert Green Ingersoll

They spend their lives fighting against priests and then give prayerbooks as gifts. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices. — Pope Francis

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men. — Desiderius Erasmus

Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday. — George Lopez

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity. — Voltaire

There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests. — Ernest Hemingway,

The FBI had been a man's world - usually men of Irish or Italian heritage schooled by Jesuits and raised in a closed culture of police and priests. — Tim Weiner

The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you ... — Giuseppe Mazzini

Thatsh prieshts for you," said the old man wetly. "Nothing by torc, torc, torc. — Terry Pratchett

I confess to the trees, priests of dreams. — Gwen Calvo

Despair makes priests and friars. — Martin Luther

How many adorn their temples, and decorate their priests - but refuse to obey the Word of the Lord! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Priests are set up by the pope and his followers to sacrifice Christ, not to teach the people. But — John Calvin

the not uncommon sexual humiliation of priests as a prelude to their murder, — Helen Graham

I've heard enough about what you want to do; now tell me what needs doing — John Marsden

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God. — Patrick Rothfuss

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries. — Tom Paulin

We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter ... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race. — James Joyce

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. — Gustave Flaubert

It is time for pastors, priests and all true believers to come out of the closet and stand for truth against the flood of evil. — James Robison

The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals. — Lauren Oliver

To be a prosperous pastor one needs: (1) a bible (2) a tailored suit; and (3) a few psychology books. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus. — Steven Van Zandt

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent. — Robert A. Heinlein

It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests. — Gautama Buddha

Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies — Bangambiki Habyarimana

And not just because meat-eating dinosaurs used as war-mounts were as rare as honest priests. — Victor Milan

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion. — Robert Genn

A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What a bad idea it had been to give the Bible to anyone but priests, Ghosh thought. It made a preacher out of everybody. — Abraham Verghese

He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders. — Heinrich Heine

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict. — Ian Hart

How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another. — Joyce Carol Oates

The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits? — Tanith Lee

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere. — George Meredith

That's why there's a devil - to judge the priests. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight;
Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight. — Alexander Pope

It's the priests who have demands, not the gods. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ. — Martin Luther

To believe that an insane person can be helped by priests or psychiatrists, is like believing that the slaughter can help the dying lamb. — Daniel Marques

People always ask how there are female priests, but in this world there are. — Maggie Q

When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors. — Michael D. Higgins

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests? — Robert Green Ingersoll

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love') — William Blake

There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are! — Marion Zimmer Bradley

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests. — George Meredith

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins. — Voltaire

(Priests) cheapjack merchants selling paradise — Jean Lorrain

I hear not all priests are that chaste these days. — Sierra Simone

Holding onto failed dreams only makes you bitter. — Joseph C. Sciarillo

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists. — John Ashcroft

Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We are not priests. We don't want their sort of confession. We are lawyers. We want the truth little by little and only those parts of it we can use. — Hilary Mantel

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation. — Andrew Greeley

I am not a priest, I am not an imam, I am not a rabbi and I am implementing the French laws on every French citizen. — Jacques Myard

Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub. — John Hillaby

The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world. — Lon Milo DuQuette

Priests are pretty much the same the world over. They seem to feel that their exclusive contact with God gives them a certain job security. — David Eddings

I can't tell by looking in your eyes whether you're a priest or a crook. — Frank Perdue

Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition. — Aldous Huxley

A man who can't stay a bit shouldn't approach in the first place. Good advice, I think, and not just for priests. — Stephen King

Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls ... — John Geddes

I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster. — Henry David Thoreau

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest. — Rodger Kamenetz

A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests. — John Dryden

Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate. — Franz Grillparzer

I have always been a lover of the sun, even if, through spending a lifetime in Ireland, I have had little personal connection with it. — John Boyne

New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large. — John Milton

The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path. — Saint John Chrysostom

I have eaten several priests. They sit on the stomach like duck eggs. — John Gardner

Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us. — George Carlin

The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion. — Giuseppe Mazzini

A country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies. — Robert Kilroy-Silk

Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers. — Janine Di Giovanni

In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices. — John Jewel

But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests. — Kathleen Parker

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears. — Antonio Vieira

Hands are indispensable for priests of the inferior orders, when they bestow the benediction. — Alexandre Dumas

The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests. — Colin Quinn

where there are priests, there is fear of Dust. — Philip Pullman

(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests. — Therese Of Lisieux

In their meditations, the high priests and priestesses of Atlantis had seen that the Atlantean civilization was going to end cataclysmically. — Frederick Lenz