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The woman could get a confession faster than a priest. — B. J. Daniels

the decisive proof that the people are dupes is when the priest is rich and powerful. — Frederic Bastiat

You've been working hard, a sandwich isn't enough. I'll make you dinner. From the
freezer she took out a TV meal and threw it in the microwave. — Zathyn Priest

The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. — Denis Diderot

His wife is washed up against him, clinging lifelessly to his arm like seaweed, with no pretense of listening to the priest's small talk. — Paul Murray

Faith is a viewpoint? That sounds strange coming from the lips of a priest. — James Targett

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

With time, he developed the instincts of a priest: evil existed; the task was to work productively within its confines. — Alan Furst

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. — Emile Zola

The first mover is the mind.

- Master Wei
Priest of the K'un Lun — Joseph J. Bailey

I've got a woman. A crazy woman." "Sounds like the start of a country song to me," I said. — Cherie Priest

I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest. — Peter Jurasik

I met his eyes because I could not refuse them ... they were the color of a storm clashing with a setting sun. — Cherie Priest

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

I wonder if the priest knows that while he's up here charging for forgiveness, Mary's back there handing it out for free. — Glennon Doyle Melton

But," she said to the priest, "I'm not dead yet. I've heard the angels farting on the ceiling. — Jean Genet

I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my atheism. — Matthew Yglesias

The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass. — Saint Augustine

The most important question I ever asked a priest was where are the Bingo Dobbers at? — Stabley Victor Paskavich

As the bitterroots, necessary for the healing but unpleasant to taste. (What Father Sacco's parishioners say about the man.) — Joseph C. Sciarillo

I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before. — Elizabeth Berg

It sounded like a good idea at the time, which is probably going to be on my tombstone - along with a catty footnote about poor impulse control. But — Cherie Priest

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent. — John Polkinghorne

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

The bishop is a lot like me ... just when you think you have me, I'm already behind you. — Priest Holmes

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

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

Give me that power, and I'll use it against you. I'll be your Madonna. I'll be your queen. And I'll have your head if it's the last thing I ever do. — Cherie Priest

In the expression of grief lies recovery from grief itself. Nor — Christopher Priest

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

Go on," said the priest very gently. "We are only trying to find the truth. What are you afraid of?" "I am afraid of finding it," said Flambeau. — G.K. Chesterton

I was an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church and no priest ever laid a hand on me. That's me, always the bridesmaid ... — Dana Gould

When you really dive into the scriptures it says the kingdom of heaven is inside you. You can feel that because of the way Christ dropped it. — Killah Priest

Hail!" chorused the mice. "Hail the High Priest of Goddammit Eat Something Already! — Seanan McGuire

The Emperor tells us that civilization will only achieve perfection when the last stone of the last church falls upon the last priest. — Graham McNeill

There are worse things than minotaurs at the centre. — Cherie Priest

The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips. — Paul Claudel

I think I came here as a priest ... The priest is more concerned with heresy than with sin; sins can be forgiven; heresy must be eliminated. — Samuel Bowers

Oh, it must be an epidemic,' the priest said; and his eyes were smiling behind his glasses. — Albert Camus

but the priest's vestments are parti-coloured, and both the work and colours are wonderful. — Thomas More

I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I believe to be the call of God. — David Hope, Baron Hope Of Thornes

Is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth? ... — John Geddes

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One. — Roger Mahony

I identify myself quite self-consciously with a man named Melchizedek, who was described in the book of Psalms as "a priest forever" (Ps. 110:4). — John Shelby Spong

It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The priest Zadok looked stricken. He had hoped to bargain information for a higher price. Now I, as a prophet, had given it to David for free. — Geraldine Brooks

The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest. — James Martineau

(Is this what we fled, when we left the ocean? Did we grow legs so we could run away?) — Cherie Priest

The wise and decent priest Jos de Vries
makes me smile by heart and soul.
Petra Hermans
November 4, 2016 — Petra Hermans

If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to. — Jeaniene Frost

I like stories very much," the priest said. "They help me understand myself better. — Simon Van Booy

the thing before it was burned. One of them had been wounded and the others had been drinking. The priest had seen it — Patrick Rothfuss

Any man who is capable of being offended or insulted after the age of forty is either immature or a damned hypocrite." (Senator) — Leonard Holton

The old priest Peter Gilligan
Was weary night and day;
For half his flock were in their beds,
Or under green sods lay. — William Butler Yeats

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature. — John Chrysostom

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. — Charles Buck

The truly inspired priest is the man or woman with the big brain. It — Arthur Conan Doyle

Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me. — Cheech Marin

I can show up at a Goldman Sachs conference wearing a Judas Priest T-shirt - and I have - while everyone else is wearing the same dress. — Sophia Amoruso

One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ ... than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office — Dietrich Von Hildebrand

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history. — H.G.Wells

To be a priest,' writes Barbara Brown Taylor, 'is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are. — Rachel Held Evans

Oh, well. Just twist the first thing you can grab, as the High Priest said to the vestal virgin. — Terry Pratchett

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life. — James Joyce

Sometimes it is the book that opens you. - Robertpriest — Robert Priest

Ah, solving that question Brings the priest and the doctor In their — David Nicholls

At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest. — Dan Simmons

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. — William Blake

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. — Malcolm Muggeridge

An editor is like a priest or a psychiatrist; if you get the wrong one then you are better off alone. — Toni Morrison

Faith asks no signal from the skies, To show that prayers accepted rise, Our Priest is in His holy place, And answers from the throne of grace. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. — Max Eastman

Yet one priest remaining in this country has the same significance as a single candle burning in the catacombs. — Shusaku Endo

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

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed. — DeWitt Clinton

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Someone else's phone rang twice, and was answered by a scowl I could hear all the way over on my end of the line. — Cherie Priest

At one time, we all were Gods. — Bjorn Street

When you get to Hell, I'll be sitting in the hot tub waiting."
Cate Harlow, PI — Kristen Houghton

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. — William Osler

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. — Mary E. Pearson

Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar in the hands of the priest. — Francis Of Assisi

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

A good idea is a good idea and my work should compete on its own merits, not based on the size of my fan base. — Christopher Priest

Cousin Jimmy says that a man in Priest Pond says the end of the world is coming soon. I hope it won't come till I've seen everything in it. — L.M. Montgomery

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign. — John O'Donohue

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. — Thomas Merton

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Aimee-"If someone's possessed by a demon, how do you get the demon out?"
Xedrix-"Call a priest. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

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. — Nancy Grace

In the end, only the truth will survive. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

This is the shade of difference: the door
of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open. — Victor Hugo

You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his. — Ernest Hemingway,

The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, THOU ART A PRIEST FOR EVER after the order of Melchizedek" (Psalm 110:4). — David Alsobrook

I think, for the writer, rather as for the priest, there isn't such a thing as success. — Graham Greene