#priest

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 vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#christ #church #dignity #duty #expression

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#just #ordinary #parish #priest #wanted

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

And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though I could probably manage it. Um, and um, ultimately I left. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#could #i #knew #left #manage