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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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
