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  1. Mario Puzo _ The Family

    But della Rovere frowned and said, "Heed my warning, Guido Feltra. He's full of the devil, this son of the church.
    book-quoteevilgodchurch

  2. Markus Zusak _ I Am the Messenger

    That's when I have to ask him. "Can you really talk like that? Being holy and all?""What? Because I'm a priest?" He finishes the dregs of his coffee. "Sure. God knows what's important.
    book-quotelanguagepriestholiness

  3. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.
    book-quotelovekindnesspriest

  4. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden

    In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.
    book-quoterespectphilosophyintellect

  5. Dan Simmons _ The Rise of Endymion

    At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.
    book-quotepriestmissionary

  6. Frank Herbert _ Children of Dune

    I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?
    book-quotereligionmediocritypriest

  7. Franz Kafka _ The Trial

    But I'm not guilty," said K. "there's been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We're all human beings here, one like the other." "That is true" said the priest "but that is how the guilty speak
    book-quotelifehumanmistakes

  8. Thomas Jefferson _ Letters of Thomas Jefferson

    History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.{}
    book-quotehistoryignorancealexander-von-humboldt
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