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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

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

— Adela Florence Nicolson

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

— Diogenes

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

— Kin Hubbard

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?

— Renee Vivien

I've heard my father say that the man is to be the priest, the provider, and the protector of his family. He's the priest because he is the spiritual leader, monitoring and growing the spiritual temperature of his family.

— Benjamin Watson

✗Opposing Perspectives

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

— Arthur Middleton

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.

— Mary Wollstonecraft