#priest

I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#bit #boundaries #catholic #family #fun

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#as far as #certain #church #concerned #despicable

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere. ↗

— George Meredith

#country #deeper #fights #freedom #man

Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#george #herbert #inspiration #model #priest

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#carry #cease #does #forever #ministry

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#christ #death #find #form #freedom

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#be different #built #different #herbert #his

As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#his #love #people #prayer #priests

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. ↗

— Henry Miller

#citizens #everyday #legal #legal system #mystery

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them. ↗

— Maria Monk

#astonishment #criminal #duties #great #horror