Ex Priests Quotes

#1. Irish ex-priests don't succumb to drunkenness, we just become more talkative on whiskey,

Matthew Quick

#2. There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

Andrew Greeley

#3. the restructuring is not the result of a shortage of priests, but from a shortage of the faithful. "They're not coming anymore, and we have to get them back.

Anonymous

#4. The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun.

Richard Cushing

#5. I think everybody has had the experience at some point when they feel that there's more to life than just matter. But I think it's very important to keep that under control and not to hand it over to be exploited by priests and shamans and rabbis and other riffraff.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday.

George Lopez

#7. A man who can't stay a bit shouldn't approach in the first place. Good advice, I think, and not just for priests.

Stephen King

#8. We priests are in some ways a sad group of men. Born into the world to render service to mankind, there is no one more wretchedly alone than the priest who does not measure up to his task.

Shusaku Endo

#9. [priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

David Hume

#10. Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

Simone De Beauvoir

#11. I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.

Maria Monk

#12. I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#13. I meant no disrespect. It's just that I had always felt that rabbis, priests, pastors, any cleric, really, lived on a plane between mortal ground and heavenly sky. God up there. Us down here. Them in between.

Mitch Albom

#14. Therefore the whole apparatus of piety, Hindu and Moslem alike - the temple and mosque, idol and holy water, scriptures and priests - were denounced by this inconveniently clear-sighted poet as mere substitutes for reality; dead things intervening between the soul and its love -

Rabindranath Tagore

#15. The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.

Leopold Sedar Senghor

#16. Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#17. When we speak of "gods," we are really talking about "the opinions of priests." When we speak of "the government," we really mean "the violence of a tiny minority.

Stefan Molyneux

#18. The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it was the Word of God. Those who most believe it are those who know least about it, and priests always take care to keep the inconsistent and contradictory parts out of sight.

Thomas Paine

#19. Transfixed beneath the rays of a jaundiced star, he huddled against the crumbling parapet, fighting an evil the priests assumed long vanquished.

Grace Draven

#20. When we reached the bus-stop we were a long way behind in the queue and when the bus came it took only half a dozen people. I noticed a group of priests looking down on us from the upper deck and I felt that somehow the Pope and his Dogmas had triumphed after all.

Barbara Pym

#21. The poets, by which I mean all artists, are finally the only people that know the truth about us. Soldiers don't, statesmen don't, priests don't, union leaders don't ... only the poets.

James Baldwin

#22. Once we got closer to the origins of these Eastern practices, we found that the monks and swamis were just as dogmatic and paternalistic, just as literal and conservative in their approach to spirituality as the Christian priests and ministers we were trying to get away from.

Gudjon Bergmann

#23. Along the avenue of cypresses,
All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices
Of linen, go the chanting choristers,
The priests in gold and black, the villagers ...

D.H. Lawrence

#24. Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

Pope Francis

#25. Marriage is the real vocation crisis in the United States ... We have a vocation crisis to life-long, life-giving, loving, faithful marriage. If we take care of that one, we'll have all the priests and nuns we'll need for the Church.

Timothy M. Dolan

#26. Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.

Keith O'Brien

#27. Stay away from these three people if you want to lead a happy healthy stress free life. Lawyers,Doctors and Priests. Lawyers take your money,Doctors take your health and Priests take your soul.

Lou Silluzio

#28. People always ask how there are female priests, but in this world there are.

Maggie Q

#29. Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

Rocco Buttiglione

#30. Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.

Rick Santorum

#31. The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.

Giuseppe Mazzini

#32. But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

Kathleen Parker