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Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.
The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.
Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
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.
How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.
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.
The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?
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.
I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.
He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.
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.
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.
I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.
As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.
Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers.
Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.
Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.
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.
It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.
[The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness.
Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.
I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.
People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
I never went to church. The priests couldn't scare me with all that crap about hell, but somehow I knew, inside of me somehow, I knew that I'd pay for it.
As a Catholic, I am proud of the social mission of the church and its concerns for the poor and dispossessed, but I still personally would support women priests.
I didn't grow up in the Catholic church, but I went to a Catholic high school and a Catholic college, and the Jesuit priests are not saints floating around campus.
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.
I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
I swear by the mighty power of Amon-Ra, whose anger can shatter the world, and by the dread power of Set, that I will never betray my trust as High Priest of Karnak.
Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.
A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.
Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.
You were part of a parish life. It was a great community to grow up in. I just was impressed by our parish priests. After a while, I began to think maybe I could do that.
I think generally, Pope Benedict did a good job cleaning up the way the church handled abusive priests but didn't go far enough in how he handled bishops who enabled them.
That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year.
The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.
The highest service that men may attain to on earth is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore, God more directly demands it of them.
The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.
How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.
The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.