In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

Patti Smith

Tags: god religion magic priest magician



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At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

Banksy

Tags: art christianity religion christmas sarcasm priest abuse



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Gift better than Himself God doth not know,
Gift better than God no man can see;
This gift doth here the giver given bestow
Gift to this gift let each receiver be;
God is my gift, Himself He freely gave me,
God's gift am I, and none but God shall have me.

Robert Southwell

Tags: god catholic gift priest jesuit



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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

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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

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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

Tags: catholicism priest gender-roles patriarchy native-american-reservation



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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

Tags: kindness love compassion priest



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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

Tags: love god atheism atheist angels priest agnosticism angel agnostic neighbor believer



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...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...

John Geddes

Tags: compassion poet writer priest writer-advice



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...you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...

John Geddes

Tags: devotion poet priest faithful



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