#priest

I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#am #become #been #bit #could

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#develop #did #escape #fact #harsh

Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#both #country #image #improve #local

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#about #being #catholic #men #more

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#data #found #generation #good #good news

Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#attended #awe #became #endowed #greatest

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#clothed #flesh #human #human nature #inherited

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. ↗

— Diogenes

#contemptible #i #look #man #men

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#changed #could #even #i #me

I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#always #began #believe #bizarre #directors