#priest

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

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. ↗

— Charles Buck

#belly #cook #god #kitchen #priest

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril . ↗

— Alfred Loisy

#man #peril #priest #search #support

One of the great bands we opened up for was Priest back in '89. That was really great because at that time we had never met them, never toured with them before. They were a big influence on Slayer, so to open up for them was really cool. ↗

— Dave Lombardo

#bands #because #before #big #big influence

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

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

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

— Giovannino Guareschi

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

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

— John Sutter

#father #i #judge #priest