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How to use the word Priest in a Sentence?

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Electricity. The high priest of false security.

Sherlock Holmes

added by milly_b
1 year ago

Every day he worked to show compassion to the poor, to the homeless, to the immigrant and to all those living on society’s margins. He was a good priest and a good bishop and a man of peace.

Los Angeles

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a priest and later a bishop here in Los Angeles for forty-five years, Bishop Dave was a man of deep prayer who had a great love for Our Blessed Mother, he was a peacemaker with a heart for the poor and the immigrant, and he had a passion for building a community where the sanctity and dignity of every human life was honored and protected.

Los Angeles

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The priest comes later.

Jared Kushner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

After what the priest did to me sexually, it changed everything.

Henry Boubard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I felt dirty inside here, from what that priest did to me. Even later on when I was growing up I just, I don't know it seemed like I just lost my mind, to be a person, a human being. I lost that, it seems like, who I was. What I was.

Henry Boubard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The building of lies to protect Pope Benedict has just collapsed with a crash. Benedict was complicit in the abuse of numerous victims after 1980, victims of Priest X.

Matthias Katsch

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I am a missionary priest announcing the Gospel in a place that is not my culture, i have to learn.

Edgardo Rivera

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In my town, the priest circulates with old ladies, i am very shocked to see these two priests like this.

Tania Rey

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My father was someone that I always looked to for guidance. I sought to emulate his beliefs and his actions. He was a former Jesuit Catholic priest turned professor and scientist. My father led by word and by deed. He taught me ethics and morality through the study of philosophy, especially that of Socrates.

Mick Mulroy

added by AnaDay
2 years ago

I perceived this priest as someone who was good, a caring person who would not harm me, but it was when I found myself on that bed half-naked and he was touching me that I realized something was wrong....And we keep this, it’s like a growing cyst. It’s like gangrene inside the victim’s body and the victim’s psyche.

Olivier Savignac

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Brian invited me to imagine a PragerU for Catholics, eDIFY will equip every parent, grandparent, priest and concerned peer with easily shareable videos and more that address the most hot-button topics of the day.

Scot Landry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When the priest left the village and we cleaned the house where he had been staying syringes and substances were found.

Spyros Kotsiadis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

From the middle stage to the end, it took about maybe 4-5 years, when she was near death … I called in the priest for her last rites. And then she lived another two years. Her heart was so strong, but she really did n’t recognize anyone. It was a slow decline. She had wonderful care. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER Peter Ford passed away in 2006 at age 90. ( Photo by FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty Images) CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP.

Yasmin Aga Khan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.

Karl Marx

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

An ape, a priest, and a louse, are three devils in one house

Proverb

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Certainly, there is a presidential character that requires truth telling, lying is a sin. There is no hierarchy of sin in the eyes of God although the consequences may be different in society. This creates a real struggle for many clergy and people of faith with the sin of murder from the perspective of abortion. ...Again, sin is non-hierarchical, but the consequences between lying and murder are so vastly different. As a priest, it provides an honest and powerful dilemma. But the common nature of what we call the seven deadly sins is that they kill the heart and the soul of a person.

Al Zadig

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When it rains on the priest, it dribbles on the bellringer. another: You can tell a louse by its walk.

Danish proverb

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Right now it's so important to use social media to bring a bit of joy into people's lives, and people seem happy when they see a priest playing music online.

Guilherme Peixoto

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

These are people who die alone and who are buried alone. They didnt have someone hold their hand and the funerals have to be tiny, with a quick prayer from the priest, many of the close relatives are in quarantine.

Alberto Ceresoli

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The one thing that really helped me during that process — I'm Catholic, I grew up Catholic, my kids are Catholic — was talking to a priest.

Kobe Bryant

Found on CNN
4 years ago

To me, this is also a cause of great sadness in my own life as a priest.

Scott Nolan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

You chose as a profession the life of being a priest. It was supposed to be your job to help, not destroy.

Roman Catholic

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Wherever there is mischief, there is sure to be a priest and a woman in it.

Famous Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

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