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Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you; say to the priests that you know God better than all of them together do, and that between God and His...

Quote by Giuseppe Mazzini about god, teachers, smile, humanity, intelligence, name, law, country, people, need

Jesus Christ is the only genuine priest, the other ones...

Jesus Christ is the only genuine priest, the other ones are just his servants.

Quote by Toma de Aquino about god

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as...

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about man

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

Quote by Orson Scott about god

Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look...

Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.

Quote by Aristotle Onassis about opinion

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Quote by Thomas Paine about good, use, good luck

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, ...

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

Quote by Thomas Paine about god, lie

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about dignity, duty, word

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about politics, interest, problems

He became a prisoner of the Germans, he escaped, he was...

He became a prisoner of the Germans, he escaped, he was condemned to death. He was saved by a priest at the last moment.

Quote by Shimon Peres about war, death, moment

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd...

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about religion, being, things

There exist only three respectable beings the priest, the...

There exist only three respectable beings the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about poets

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet...

Quote by Francis McCourt about childhood, saints, poverty, miracle, mother, happiness, fire, fire brigade, nothing, things

Never, until now, in old age, the thingshappenedas I wanted. Always something hadoccurredthat deviated my path. I enrolled in high school because I wanted to attend the faculty of Arts in Baia Mare, but exactly in the year when I had to sustain...

Quote by Augustin Buzura about destiny, school, olderness, art, writers, age, old, being

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