Famous quotes by Priests

Priests

Voices of priests from many traditions offer reflections shaped by service, contemplation, and everyday encounters with people and mystery. Their words range from gentle encouragement to searching questions, touching on conscience, community, compassion, and hope. Whether you are curious about spiritual perspectives or simply appreciate thoughtful insight, these quotations invite slow reading and personal interpretation. Taken from pastoral work, scholarship, and lived experience, they illuminate how faith and doubt can live side by side, guiding hearts toward clarity, humility, and care.

"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better"

Richard Hooker, Priest

"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves"

Ernest Dimnet, Priest

Small: Ernest Dimnet

"When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are"

Richard Hooker, Priest

"Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking"

Ernest Dimnet, Priest

Small: Ernest Dimnet

"The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way"

Dean Stanley, Priest

"He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers"

Richard Hooker, Priest

"What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences"

Abbe Pierre, Priest

Small: Abbe Pierre

"Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace"

Abbe Pierre, Priest

Small: Abbe Pierre

"From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you"

Richard Hooker, Priest

"To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery"

Richard Hooker, Priest

"Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God"

Richard Hooker, Priest

"The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present"

Ernest Dimnet, Priest

Small: Ernest Dimnet

"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul"

Ernest Dimnet, Priest

Small: Ernest Dimnet

"Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it"

Ernest Dimnet, Priest

Small: Ernest Dimnet

"Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room"

Ernest Dimnet, Priest

Small: Ernest Dimnet

"All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy"

Ernest Dimnet, Priest

Small: Ernest Dimnet

"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers"

Ernest Dimnet, Priest

Small: Ernest Dimnet

"Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement"

Ernest Dimnet, Priest

Small: Ernest Dimnet

"The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things"

Ernest Dimnet, Priest

Small: Ernest Dimnet

"Ideas are the root of creation"

Ernest Dimnet, Priest

Small: Ernest Dimnet

"We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff"

Dean Stanley, Priest

"I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again"

Dean Stanley, Priest

"Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it"

Abbe Pierre, Priest

Small: Abbe Pierre

"My family background was deeply Christian"

Abbe Pierre, Priest

Small: Abbe Pierre

"It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act"

Abbe Pierre, Priest

Small: Abbe Pierre

"The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school"

Abbe Pierre, Priest

Small: Abbe Pierre

"It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges"

Abbe Pierre, Priest

Small: Abbe Pierre

"I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities"

Abbe Pierre, Priest

Small: Abbe Pierre

"After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted"

Abbe Pierre, Priest

Small: Abbe Pierre

"Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life"

Abbe Pierre, Priest

Small: Abbe Pierre

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