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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
If, at a party, I say I'm a poet, people have a hard time responding, almost as if I'd said I'm a priest.
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.
The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .
My father was a priest, so it was natural for us to read the 'Ramayana' and inculcate its values in our life.
You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.
I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic... I'm very faithful.
The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.
I thought you had to be humble to become a saint, but a priest told me it takes all kinds to make it to heaven.
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
There were a lot of things I thought of doing as I was growing up, from becoming a singer to a priest to a pilot.
I was fat and ugly and never 'wanted to hook up - for a gay guy that's unheard of. I was like a monk or a priest.
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Trying to do Christianity properly is tough. Life as a priest is rigorous and disciplined. It involves sacrifices.
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.
To have Judas Priest together? It's a real adventure, and we always feel excited when it's time to create a new record.
I did the good priest and the bad and felt that I am getting stereotyped in priest roles. I am not picking them anymore.
The theatre is your pulpit - it is your church - and you want to be a priest in your church, and that's what I believe in.
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman, or healer.
I was really talkative as a child. The priest used to pray for me not to talk so much because I was distracting the other kids.
I was born in a temple to a priest father, in a place like Benaras. So, my upbringing has been influenced by such surroundings.
We have a priest at Inter Milan and a chapel at the training ground. That is where I was baptised and confirmed into the church.
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.
I knew it was wrong, but I thought gambling was a venial sin. That's why I didn't confess it to a priest until after I was caught.
I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration.
Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
I can show up at a Goldman Sachs conference wearing a Judas Priest T-shirt - and I have - while everyone else is wearing the same dress.
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.
I started out just as Elvis was going into the army, Jerry Lee Lewis married his 14-year-old cousin, and Little Richard became a priest.
Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me.
I have blessed hands. I got my hands blessed by the priest, and I am able to give out Holy Communion at Mass. It is lovely to be part of it.
I never thought much about God, certainly never wondered whether God was thinking about me, until I fell in love with a Zen Buddhist priest.
In high school, my principal was a priest and my assistant basketball coach. We were close. In high school, I would talk to him a little bit.
Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.
Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'
Confessions are not processed or analysed; they're told in a moment of desperation to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime.
God is my best friend. I talk to God every day. And no one can tell me how to talk to God - not no imam, not no priest, not no rabbi, no pastor.
You've got to be able to compromise in a band; otherwise, somebody's more important than the next guy, and that's never been the case in Priest.
If someone asks me whether I have seen God in flesh and blood, my answer would be that I believe that a temple priest is the God in front of me.
I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic. ... I'm very faithful. I believe in God, in Jesus Christ.
I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
I grew up with this idea that songwriters had a great job. My family was Irish Catholic, so if you became a priest or a songwriter, you were golden.
I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I believe to be the call of God.
Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.