191 Quotes About Priest
- Author Frank O'Connor
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Tom looked more and more like a rabbi. As is the way of men of character in provincial towns, he tended to become a collection of mannerisms, a caricature of himself.
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- Author Charles L. Bailey Jr.
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Bit by bit, Dr. Driscoll helped me to peel away the layers of protection I had built up over the years. The process was not that unlike the peeling of an onion, which also makes us cry. It has been a painful journey, and I don't now when it will end, when I can say, “OK, it's over.” Maybe never. Maybe sooner than I know. I recently told Dr. Driscoll that I feel the beginnings of feeling OK, that this is the right path.
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- Author Ludvig Holberg
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Jeg fik udi min Ungdom engang Tiltale af en Præst, efterdi en Prædiken, som jeg holdt for ham, havde kun varet et Qvarteer. Men jeg meenede, at, naar Tautologier og u-nødige Repetitioner bleve borttagne af hans Taler, vi prædikede lige længe. Thi, ligesom en Times god Søvn er lige saa kraftig, som 4 Timers Slummer; Saa kand en med faae Linier betyde det samme, som andre med heele Ark.
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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The priest must preach the pure words of God.
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- Author Frank Herbert
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You, Priest in your mufti, you are a chaplain to the self-satisfied. I come not to challenge Muad'Dib but to challenge you! Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name? Whence comes your downward degeneration from the original revelation? Answer me, Priest!
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- Author Osho
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Man cannot be reduced to slavery if he is not distorted first. The politician and the priest have been in a deep conspiracy down the ages. They have been reducing humanity to a crowd of slaves. They are destroying every possibility of rebellion in man—and love is rebellion, because love listens only to the heart and does not care a bit about anything else.
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- Author Bernard Cornwell
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Father Hobbe, his cassock skirts hitched up to his waist, was fighting with a quarterstaff, ramming the pole into French faces. ‘In the name of the Father,’ he shouted, and a Frenchman reeled back with a pulped eye, ‘and of the Son,’ Father Hobbe snarled as he broke a man’s nose, ‘and of the Holy Ghost!
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- Author Mark M. Bello
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In the next few days, he’d receive his verdict. Win or lose, he feared Jennifer would soon be gone. He stood under the cascade, head down, until the water turned cold. Jennifer was correct, as usual. The money didn’t mean a damn thing.
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- Author Mark M. Bello
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Your Honor,” the jury foreman began to read, “We the jury find in favor of the . . .
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