#priest

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#code #only #priestly #rests #result

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. ↗

— Charles Buck

#belly #cook #god #kitchen #priest

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#had #hands #his #kings #priest

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril . ↗

— Alfred Loisy

#man #peril #priest #search #support

One of the great bands we opened up for was Priest back in '89. That was really great because at that time we had never met them, never toured with them before. They were a big influence on Slayer, so to open up for them was really cool. ↗

— Dave Lombardo

#bands #because #before #big #big influence

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#come #dealt #eyes #grandfather #i

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#been #country #every #had #hostile

And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though I could probably manage it. Um, and um, ultimately I left. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#could #i #knew #left #manage

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#becoming #before #between #close #deacon

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#first #good #happen #help #him