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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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Vriesmakes me smile by heart and soul.
Petra Hermans
November 4, 2016 — Petra Hermans
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 GilliganWas 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
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
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
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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
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
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
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,
