#priests

There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected. ↗

— Gene Robinson

#bishops #church #elected #enormously #episcopal

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches? ↗

— Lemuel K. Washburn

#churches #how #long #ministers #priests

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#great #killed #many #never #philosopher

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#right #say #sin

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#dark #exercised #gave #himself #his

Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#beliefs #case #failings #flaws #honest

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious. ↗

— Giles Gilbert Scott

#anxious #appalling #artistic #catholic #catholic church

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them. ↗

— William Shirley

#dependence #disposition #drawn #eastern #flatter

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores. ↗

— James Clavell

#priests #religion #religion

(Priests) cheapjack merchants selling paradise ↗

— Jean Lorrain

#religion #religion