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 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 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 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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