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I didn't grow up in the Catholic church, but I went to a Catholic high school and a Catholic college, and the Jesuit priests are not saints floating around campus.
Chris Sullivan
School
Church
College
High
High School
Priests
Catholic
Catholic Church
Around
Saints
Up
Campus
Grow
Floating
Grow Up
We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it.
Clayton M. Christensen
Christ
Care
Living
Christian
Other
Ministers
Priests
Forces
Hire
Taught
Us
View
Teach
Each
Core
The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.
Colin Quinn
Alone
People
Live
More
Only
Priests
Like
Comics
Than
Who
I think all priests should be married.
Denis Leary
Think
Married
Priests
Should
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
Desiderius Erasmus
World
Men
Long
Too
Fine
Temple
Entire
Entire World
Never
Priests
Mistaken
Very
Lack
Serve
Good priests never look for awards and, perversely enough in the clerical culture universe, do not receive many. Like the aged nuns who taught selflessly and nearly anonymously all their lives, these servants of the People of God only get into the papers when their obituaries are printed.
Eugene Kennedy
God
Good
Culture
People
Universe
Enough
Nuns
Papers
Obituaries
Only
Never
Priests
Like
Look
Clerical
Anonymously
Printed
Get
Taught
Aged
Who
Many
Awards
Lives
Servants
Nearly
Receive
I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
Garry Wills
Life
Time
Respect
My Life
Nothing
Tried
Fond
Fact
Priests
Clear
Am
Often
In Fact
Against
Then
Should
Many
Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.
Gerhard Richter
People
World
Important
Philosophers
More
Priests
Most
Important People
Any
Artists
The Most Important
Now
I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.
Guillermo del Toro
Great
Religion
Monsters
Frankenstein
Seeing
More
Priests
Sincere
Because
Were
Form
Started
I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.
Gustave Flaubert
Hate
Made
Though
High
Priests
Call
Been
Decided
Which
Realism
Even
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
Hans Kung
God
People
Church
Understanding
Community
Bishops
Hierarchy
Priests
Just
Which
Communion
Whose
Servants
Thing
Third
How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.
Harry Houdini
Church
Become
Secrets
Possession
Kind
Would
Records
Allow
Priests
Does
How
Came
Were
Any
Public
Them
Appear
Ever
Hardly
Early
The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.
Hernan Cortes
Woman
Society
Enter
Religious
Priests
Houses
Female
Permitted
Nor
Debarred
Any
Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers.
Janine di Giovanni
Me
Nuns
Brothers
Small
Small Child
Priests
Educated
Were
Wondered
Child
Subservient
Who
Even
Why
People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.
John Ashcroft
People
Matter
Crimes
Those
Responsible
Ministers
Atheists
Priests
Commit
Whether
Should
Who
Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
John Chrysostom
Hell
Priests
Paved
Hell Is
The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties.
John Foxe
People
Minds
Worshipped
Sun
Dreaded
Properties
Having
Had
Priests
Maintained
Over
Gospel
Spread
Were
Loss
Greatly
Itself
Persia
Hitherto
Influence
Pagan
Who
If you explain to a patient what can be done and what might be the downsides, let the patient choose; don't have ethicists, priests, or doctors say you may or may not have replacement cells.
John Gurdon
You
Doctors
Patient
Say
Priests
Replacement
Done
Cells
May
Explain
Might
Choose
What cursed spirit of falsehood moveth priests to close themselves within stone walls for all their life, since Christ commanded all his apostles and priests to go into all the world, and to preach the Gospel?
John Wycliffe
Life
World
Walls
Christ
Preach
All The World
Spirit
Priests
Since
Gospel
Within
Go
His
Falsehood
Close
Stone
Cursed
Themselves
Apostles
I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.
Jonathan Davis
Home
Religion
Me
Gay
Believe
Telling
Tried
Priests
Stuff
Catholic
Dealt
Go
Go Home
Hand
Hand-In-Hand
Bunch
Them
Should
Organized
Organized Religion
Whole
The drinker is a Dionysiac, a dancer who sits still, a mocker. He doesn't need your seriousness or your regard. He just needs a little quiet music and a gentle freedom from priests.
Lawrence Osborne
Music
Needs
Freedom
Dancer
Drinker
He
Priests
Freedom From
Gentle
Still
Quiet
Just
Regard
Little
Your
Who
Seriousness
Need
I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the priests of all sorts by claiming religious liberty; the anarchists by repressing them; and the conspirators by rejecting their offers.
Marquis de Lafayette
Liberty
Anarchist
Claiming
Religious
Religious Liberty
Blaming
Had
Priests
Aristocratic
Powers
Sort
Offers
Legitimate
Them
Usurpation
Rejecting
In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.
Max von Sydow
Me
Cast
Priests
Hollywood
Villains
I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
Oscar Niemeyer
Everyone
Priests
Like
Talking
Catholics
Beliefs
For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.
Pope Benedict XVI
Faith
Great
Me
Together
Joy
Bishop
Great Joy
Brother
Brothers
Priests
His
End
Mandate
Confirm
In The End
Rome
Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman, and you will find that you have made a declaration of war.
Robert Green Ingersoll
War
You
Will
Made
Men
Find
Admiration
Pronounce
Voltaire
Priests
Excites
Name
Clergyman
Declaration
Presence
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