#priest

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#falling #falling in love #go #hardly #into

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

#archbishop #canon #cardinal #could #entered

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

#class #curate #five #i #kent

When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the nuns in the kitchen and thus discovered my passion for cooking. I began to cultivate my skills and aspirations at the age of 15, when I embarked on my first apprenticeship. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#apprenticeship #aspirations #becoming #began #cooking

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#had #hands #his #kings #priest

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#first #good #happen #help #him

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#grade #i #priest #sixth #wanted

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

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#hollywood #me #priests #usually #villains

We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it. ↗

— Clayton Christensen

#christ #christian #core #each #forces