[Ireland is a] country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.
Aimee-"If someone's possessed by a demon, how do you get the demon out?" Xedrix-"Call a priest.
I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.
I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met around the pile; The multitude was gazing silently; And as the culprit passed with dauntless mien, Tempered disdain in his unaltering eye, Mixed with a quiet smile, shone calmly forth; The thirsty fire crept round his manly limbs; His resolute eyes were scorched to blindness soon; His death-pang rent my heart! the insensate mob Uttered a cry of triumph, and I wept. Weep not, child! cried my mother, for that man Has said, 'There is no God. '
Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.
The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.
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.
Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time.
Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.
I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain.
On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis.
Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult.
I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.
What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.
When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.
It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest, which "station in life" each had to leave, with brief notice.
I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.