Priest Quotes

“Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky

“A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.”
― Peter L. Berger, A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural

“...when I chose you, I didn't want the commonplace - I didn't want a 'partner' - I wanted a shrine...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“When Silas said Gabriel was a priest, I assumed he meant to a real congregation, not the caretaker of an empty building threatening to send the entire street of people to meet Jesus literally at any moment, and not just emotionally.”
― Rachel Higginson, Fearless Magic

“This is the shade of difference: the door
of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“What are you?' he [Nanapush] said to Damien, who was deep in a meditation over his [chess] bishop's trajectory.
'A priest' said Father Damien
'A man priest or a woman priest?'...
...'I am a priest', she whispered, hoarsely, fierce. 'Why' said Nanapush kindly, as though Father Damien hadn't answered, to put the question to rest, 'are you pretending to be a man priest?”
― Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

“...you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“...yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“...You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls....”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“...I guess you're right - I am a priest - I offer sacrifices - so take this line, I want you to have something of mine...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“...maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrusted monks...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain