#priest

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#be different #built #different #herbert #his

As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#his #love #people #prayer #priests

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. ↗

— Henry Miller

#citizens #everyday #legal #legal system #mystery

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

#astonishment #criminal #duties #great #horror

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ↗

— Maria Monk

#any #awe #believed #dead #great

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them. ↗

— Maria Monk

#course #did #duty #everything #faithful

Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time. ↗

— Maria Monk

#every #every day #night #nunnery #often

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#gaul #nobility #orders #people #priesthood

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

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#catholics #everyone #i #like #priests