90 Metaphors for priests

The priests, to whom the little comparative learning of the dark ages attached, knew well how to impose upon the credulous: but imposition was not always their object; an extent of benevolence prevailed which contemplated the relief of their fellow creatures afflicted with sickness.

In this corrupt state of things the priests were the only protectors of the unfortunate Filipinos; though occasionally they also threw in their lot with the alcaldes, and shared in the spoil wrung from their unfortunate flocks.

That was his Council of War, and the four priests of Bashkai, Shu, Khawak, and Madora was his Privy Council.

But a Romish priest would be the last person, I should think, who could tell him fairly, in the present case, the cause of his affliction; and I question whether he would give a patient hearing to any one who told it him.' 'How so?

But the priests in the Heptarchy, after the first missionaries, were wholly Saxons, and almost as ignorant and barbarous as the laity.

In every parish the priests were his lieutenants.

"I am little of a churchman myself, the forest and the war trail please me better, but the priests are a great prop to France in the New World.

The roundest and happiest-looking priest in the city of New Orleans was a little man fondly known among his people as Père Jerome.

True priests, he said, and preachers of the Word, Were only stewards of their sovereign Lord: Nothing was theirs; but all the public store; Intrusted riches, to relieve the poor: Who, should they steal for want of his relief, He judged himself accomplice with the thief.

Wood that had been cut at Eimeo for anchor stocks was used for fishing the head, and the work proceeded rapidly: the priests making the camp tabu, so that there should be no interference with the workmen.

It may be his heir, his reputed son, and yet indeed a priest or a serving man may be the true father of him; but we will not controvert that now; married women are all honest; thou art his son's son's son, begotten and born infra quatuor maria, &c. Thy great great great grandfather was a rich citizen, and then in all likelihood a usurer, a lawyer, and then aa courtier, and then aa country gentleman, and then he scraped it out of sheep, &c.

The high-priest of Quietism was the Spanish priest MOLINOS (q. v.), and his chief disciple in France was Madame de Guyon, who infected the mind of the saintly Fénélon.

French Catholic priests had been deported from here because the Protestants were already in possession, and objected to competition, saying that the priests were children of Beelzebub, and taught false doctrines and morals.

I don't like priests; the priest was the only thing about you I never liked.

But the apostate priest is anathema in the eyes of the Church; the doctrine always has been that a sin matters little if the sinner repent.

An Anglican priest at the time, in charge of a small Norfolk parish, he was a great believer in the value of ceremonialin the use, that is, of color, odor and sound to induce mental states of worship and adorationmore especially, however, of sound as uttered by the voice, the human voice being unique among instruments in that it combined the characteristics of all other sounds.

Whatever was the misery of the country, the ordinary family ties still bound the people to the universal Christian church, whether the priest were Norman or English.

The priest is always such an ambassador.

This Catholic priest was Clark's old friend Gibault.

It was he, however, who did all the talking now; the priest had suddenly become a passive listener.

The officiating priests were brahmins, the custom and the festivalof which Lacshmee, the goddess of wealth, is the patronessbeing purely Hindu.

The three priests now at St. Walburge's are Fathers J. Johnson (principal), Payne, and Papall.

These priests are scourges sent to torment men in every shape!

These priests was a-lookin' arter the comin' generation.

On my theory the priest represented Jupiter in the flesh, and accordingly, if Jupiter was primarily a sky-god, his priest cannot have been a mere incarnation of the sacred oak, but must, like the deity whose commission he bore, have been invested in the imagination of his worshippers with the power of overcasting the heaven with clouds and eliciting storms of thunder and rain from the celestial vault.

90 Metaphors for  priests