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That's a strange hobby for a Church Knight."
"God hired me as a fighting man, Sparhawk, not as a monk. I fight whenever He tells me to, but the rest of my time is my own.
Dark, primitive magic. Swords Against Death.
Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved
Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical,( ... ) the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys. It's the ones who believe in gods who make the trouble. (Tyrion)
A shaman walks the thin line of insanity and bliss.
In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.
The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.
With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.
One does not have to be a priest to be a man!
I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us would love to call us priestesses. They can call us all the names in the world
it's better than being invisible.
Nature indeed plants the seeds of religion--fear and ignorance; kingcraft and priestcraft water and tend it.
I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.
Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.
Worship shadows eternity and provides supernatural encouragement.
I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and this dream has grown with me. Considering the mystical body of the Church, I desired to see myself in them all.
This is th' abyss. Behold wherein I lurk
The lazar-house my mind, wherein do work
The horrid charnel-priests, whose loathly song
Sickens my soul, and quells the spirit strong.
I shall always be a priest of love.
Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist.
In the priesthood we share the sacred duty to labor for the souls of men. We must do more than learn that this is our duty. It must go down into our hearts so deeply that neither the many demands on our efforts in the bloom of life nor the trials that come with age can turn us from that purpose.
In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God.
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.
All work was designed by God to be priestly work.
The priest raises his foot. In it he feels a dull, heavy pain. This is no mere formality. He will now trample on what he has considered the most beautiful thing in his life, on what he has believed most pure, on what is filled with the ideals and the dreams of man.
You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.
An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.
It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
The poor priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I have brought back the treasure of a cathedral.
On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou.
The truly inspired priest is the man or woman with the big brain. It
Hallowed be thy name, oh Lord
and shotgun do your stuff
[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.
A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.
The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.
In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.
The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to avoid this is for the priest to be instant in prayer. If he is not, he will lose that touch of the supernatural, without which he has no right to be a priest at all.
Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed
But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
Just for tonight, let's pretend I'm not a priest and you're not crazy. We're just two normal human beings having a good time. Just a man and a woman at a rip-off carnival, living in the moment.
When there were no churches, no creeds or sects, but when every man was a priest unto himself
Every altar worth its salt must have an offered sacrificial Lamb, a consuming burning fire, an ascending smoke, a priest and the receiver (God)
Obedience decks the Christian most.
The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.
Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar in the hands of the priest.
PSEUDO-CHRYSOSTOM. But regard must be had to this, after what sort each man fills his seat; for not the seat makes the Priest, but the Priest the seat; the place does not consecrate the man, but the man the place. A wicked Priest derives guilt and not honour from his Priesthood.
Despite its prominence now, you don't stumble onto the path of shamanism. That odd trail blazes itself to you.
Because the priest must have like every dog his day
Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon,
We and our dolls being but the world were best away.
There will soon be no more priests ... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place. A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man, and every man shall be his own priest.
The priest is not made. He must be born a priest; must inherit his office. I refer to the new birth-the birth of water and the Spirit. Thus all Christians must became priests, children of God and co-heirs with Christ the Most High Priest.
Sacred souls serve.
Proud Prelate, you know what you were before I made you what you are. If you do not immediately comply with my request I will unfrock you by God!
I'm a lapsed altar boy.
A ritual becomes the match that lights the kindred celebration candle of sacred moments long ago ... tantalizing these entombed spirits to surface again.
You are my priest. You are my prayer. You are my release.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
The first priest I find, I'm goan to marry you. I'm all in, peekon.
Programs, systems and methods sit well in the ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms of icons. Head knowledge comes from the pages of a theology text. But the invitation to know God - truly know Him - is always an invitation to suffer. Not to suffer alone, but to suffer with Him.
Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle
Such lamps within the dome of this dim world
That the pale name of priest might shrink and dwindle
Into the Hell from which it first was furled.
How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency.
When I am away from Liturgy for too long, I find I burn for it now, for the steadiness of the calendar, the words" that ring out in repetition, the heavy scented air. When I return each week, I am coming home again. Liturgy is written into my flesh, sinking into my skin and my spirit.
Whoever the priest is, he is called Father.
What else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love? ...
Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.
There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is.
priests dressed in skirts try to trump women's birth-giving power by baptizing with imitation birth fluid, calling us reborn, and going women one better by promising everlasting life. Indeed,
I wanted passionately to be a priest.
Don't you understand, mister, you are royalty and God has chosen you to be priest of your home?
On Sundays, the pretending felt almost as natural as nature. The chapel was our favorite place. Long before we could understand what the priest was saying, the music instructed us in how to feel.
Plays ... Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!
Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into the powers benumbed in our personalities by our prevailing culture.
Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.
A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his small battles writ large in the wars of titans or elves and understand for the first time, his own worth.
Seek the Babe with Brother One
Honour the Brother with his Blade of Souls
Worship the Mother with her Shield of Stars
Remember the Knight with Demons Dead
Respect them all - for all are One
Light, more light!"
But the closer the priest came to his goal, the less man there was in him, the more beast.
A soldier of fortune with twisted tongue will come to pillage the sanctuary of the gods; To the heretics he will open the gate, thus stirring up the Church militant.
The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.
the not uncommon sexual humiliation of priests as a prelude to their murder,
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
A radiant fellowship of the fallen.
[There is a real need] to search out the real Church from age to age,... indeed a work of much labour and difficulty... The ore is precious, but it must be extracted from incredible heaps of Ecclesiastical rubbish.
But the unfaithful priest, what tongue
Enough, shall execrate?
The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.
My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior
BEFORE the Reformation.
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
And when you spoke to me, I did not know
That to my life's high altar came its priest.
The highest service that men may attain to on earth is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore, God more directly demands it of them.
The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition; and may therefore deserve to be considered, as a singular event in the history of the human mind.
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.
As God commands us men to teach your wife, to teach your children - to be the spiritual leader of your family - you're acting as a priest. Now, unfortunately, unfortunately, in too many Christian homes, the role of the priest is assumed by the wife.
One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight;
Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
Anthropologically informed works, from Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough to Pascal Boyer's Religion Explained or Scott Atran's In Gods We Trust, fascinatingly document the bizarre phenomenology of superstition and ritual. Read such books and marvel at the richness of human gullibility. But that is not
The goal of priestly ministry is to do good to the souls of men.
Shaman ninjas. Perfect. Now my life was complete.
Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.
The ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming.
How anyone could endure three or four hours of chanting monks and ranting priests was beyond my understanding, just as it was beyond my understanding to know why bishops needed thrones. They would be demanding crowns next.
There's something about you that smells a little of a Christian priest. I find it offensive.
A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears.
The workshop of missionary munitions is the hidden, personal, worshipping life of the saint.