Priest Quotes

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.

If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

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.

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.

I love what I'm doing. It's my life. When it's time to go, I'll probably be fighting to get out of the casket. I'll be yelling at the priest instead of a referee.

I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

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.

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

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

I think we all appreciate it now just how lucky we are to be in a band like Judas Priest.

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

I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.

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

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

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!

To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn't there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya, for being a Catholic priest. Isn't that interesting? Everybody else made the reunion but that guy.

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.

If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.