Top 20 Quotes About Parish Priest
#1. Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.
John Polkinghorne
#2. I am very much looking forward to being a parish priest.
David Hope
#4. Every hundred years or so a new Grim Anoukie is made; the Parish Priest at the time picks a victim, usually someone who has pissed off the church or simply wouldn't be missed. He then buries them alive in the Virgin Grave; the rest is... history."
Nicky Peacock
"The Virgin Grave
Nicky Peacock
#5. I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I believe to be the call of God.
David Hope, Baron Hope Of Thornes
#6. Papa said that the parish priest in Abba was not spiritual enough. That was the problem with our people, Papa told us, our priorities were wrong; we cared too much about huge church buildings and mighty statues. You would never see white people doing that.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#7. From that time on the parish priest began to show signs of senility that would lead him to say years later that the devil had probably won his rebellion against God, and that he was the one who sat on the heavenly throne, without revealing his true identity in order to trap the unwary.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#8. The illicit Irish homemade spirit, poitin was frowned upon by the Catholic Church, which made its manufacture grave enough of a sin to require a bishop's absolution rather than that of the regular parish priest. Ah, the lengths the Irish will go to for "the demon drink!
Rashers Tierney
#9. I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.
Justin Welby
#10. But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
John Heywood
#11. As a parish priest of the Church Of England I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.
Alan Green
#12. When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.
Liam O'Flaherty
#13. I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.
Naomi Klein
#14. Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.
Henry David Thoreau
#15. If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
Glenn Beck
#16. Kevin defended him. The parish in Yonkers was 100 percent Irish, he rationalized, and the priest had no choice but to affirm his community's values. I disagreed. Bigotry is not a value.
Sonia Sotomayor
#17. Evangelical churches often make extroversion a prerequisite for leadership, sometimes explicitly. "The priest must be ... an extrovert who enthusiastically engages members and newcomers, a team player," reads an ad for a position as associate rector of a 1,400-member parish.
Susan Cain
#18. Please . . ." "Now let go so you can watch my mouth." "Will," she said, voice shaking. "Yeah?" "After this? Please don't break me.
Christina Lauren
#19. My grandmother would take me to the cinema quite a lot. She'd take me with her and sometimes she'd sneak my sister in, and then we'd sometimes just sit and watch the movie again.
James McAvoy
#20. If you're patient and you wait long enough, something will usually happen and it'll usually be something you don't like.
Kinky Friedman
