80 Quotes About Priests
- Author Mark Lawrence
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Gomst's mouth framed a 'no', but every other muscle in him said 'yes'. You'd think priests would be better liars, what with their jobs and all.
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- Author Marion Zimmer Bradley
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There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!
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- Author Ted Dekker
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Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.
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- Author Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
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We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute.
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- Author Julia Spencer-Fleming
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The only other person attending who was close to her age was Father St. Laurent, a devastatingly good-looking Roman Catholic priest who made the RC's vows of celibacy seem like a crime against the human gene pool.
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- Author Voltaire
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Los Padres son dueños de todo y la gente no posée nada; es la obra maestra de la razón y la justicia. Yo no encuentro nada tan extraordinario como los Padres, que aquí luchan contra el rey de España y el de Portugal, y que allí, en Europa, confiesan a esos mismos reyes; que aquí matan españoles, y que en Madrid los envían al cielo: es algo portentoso
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- Author Terry Pratchett
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Right. A wizard’s only a priest without a god and a damp handshake,” said Granny.
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- Author Will Durant
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Christianity must be divine since it has lasted 1,700 years despite the fact that it is so full of villainy and nonsense." [Voltaire] shows how almost all ancient peoples had similar myths, and hastily concludes that the myths are thereby proved to have been the inventions of priests: "the first divine was the first rogue who met the first fool.
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- Author Steven Erikson
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The Letherii well knew that resistance to tyranny was nurtured in schools of faith, espoused by old, bitter priests and priestesses, by elders whole would work through the foolish young – use them like weapons, flung away when broken, melodramatically mourned when destroyed.Priests and priestesses whose version of faith justified the abuse of their own followers.
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