#priest

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. ↗

— John Ruskin

#any #beloved #candidly #creeds #dark

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#invisible #lives #only #priest #realm

What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#boom #gnarly #goes #guys #high

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#delight #game #hired #jest #lawyer

Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet! ↗

— Giovannino Guareschi

#don-camillo #humour #italy #priesthood #catholicism

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#block #canon #church #emancipation #greatest

The poet is the priest of the invisible. ↗