#priest

That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#approaches #believed #claim #creative #degree

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest. ↗

— Pat Buchanan

#just #like #newspaper #post #priest

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#code #only #priestly #rests #result

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops. ↗

— Hans Kung

#church #communion #community #god #hierarchy

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors. ↗

— Hans Kung

#certain #certainly #children #could #impulses

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

The poet is the priest of the invisible. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#poet #priest

I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge. ↗

— John Sutter

#father #i #judge #priest

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#dust #forgets #gloom #god #out

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. ↗