We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.
It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.
I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.
Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.
You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
I had 50 pastors, ministers, I had priests, I had a couple of rabbis in a big conference room in one of my buildings. And we're talking and I could see they really liked me. But I could also see they couldn't endorse me. I said, "Just out of curiosity, why?""Well, we can't do it because we'll lose our tax-exempt status. "
I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.
The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria or your own unfeminine inadequacy. Women have learned to submit to pain by hearing authority figures - doctors, priests, psychiatrists - tell us that what we feel is not pain.
In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.
Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?
One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.
Unfortunately many scientists see themselves too much as priests whose job it is to preach moralistic sermons to people. This is another legacy of the 1968 generation, which I happen to belong to myself. In fact, it would be better if we just presented the facts and scenarios dispassionately - and then society can decide for itself what it wants to do to influence climate change.
I shall always be a priest of love.
I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.
I am utterly against any kind of guilt. Remember it always: if you start feeling guilty about something around me, then you are doing it on your own, then you are still carrying the voices of your parents, the priests within you; you have not yet heard me, you have not yet listened to me. I want you to be totally free of all guilt.