#priest

In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#kings #priests #thieves #age

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#case #clerical #dismissed #guilt #itself

A substandard education will always result in a substandard nation. ↗

— Aubrey Priest

#education #education-reform #inspirational #leadership #education

...yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #lover #magician #poetry #priest

The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#i #only #oppose #orthodox #priests

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

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 hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#call #decided #even #hate #high

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course. ↗

— Rob Walton

#came #church #congregation #course #entire

To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest. ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#heavy metal #judas #judas priest #metal #others