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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

— John Dryden

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God.

— Bob Bartlett

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

— Pope Francis

Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers.

— Janine di Giovanni

Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.

— Cheech Marin

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

— Elayne Boosler

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

— Alan Watts

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

— Samuel Butler

Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate.

— Sheri L. Dew

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— John Chrysostom