A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities. Their office or position is the "priesthood", a term which also may apply to such persons collectively. A priest may have the duty to hear confessions periodically, give marriage counseling, provide prenuptial counseling, give spiritual direction, teach catechism, or visit those confined indoors, such as the sick in hospitals and nursing homes.

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“As the caterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.”
— William Blake, “Proverbs of Hell,” The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, line 55
““I know you priests believe six impossible things every day before breakfast,” I said. “Some of you, anyway. I think most of you are parasites who live off the gullible, the ignorant and the desperate. I don’t think any of you who get ahead believe what you preach. You sure never practice it.””
— Glen Cook, Cold Copper Tears (1988), Chapter 50
“I knew as well as anyone that the priests taught what they wanted us to know, not necessarily what was true. And sometimes even when they told the truth, they got it wrong.”
— N. K. Jemisin, The Broken Kingdoms (2011), Chapter 5
“The celebrated phrase, 'so much the worse for the facts', would satisfy only the high priests of Marxism, for Marxism also has its high priests, and these priests, like all others, daily deny the principles they claim to defend. Bolshevism is a living proof of this.”
— Lucien Laurat, Marxism and Democracy, 1940, published by the , Victor Gollancz Ltd, London; translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Text online at the .
“I am a priest. It’s my job to whip individuals or groups into a frenzy.”
— Robert J. Sawyer, Far-Seer (1992), , p. 218
“As formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen.”
— Thomas Szasz, The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1997), p. 160

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A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities. Their office or position is the "priesthood", a term which also may apply to such persons collectively. A priest may have the duty to hear confessions periodically, give marriage counseling, provide prenuptial counseling, give spiritual direction, teach catechism, or visit those confined indoors, such as the sick in hospitals and nursing homes.

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A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities. Their office or position is the "priesthood", a term which also may apply to such persons collectively. A priest may have the duty to hear confessions periodically, give marriage counseling, provide prenuptial counseling, give spiritual direction, teach catechism, or visit those confined indoors, such as the sick in hospitals and nursing homes.

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Notable quotes

“As the caterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.”
— William Blake, “Proverbs of Hell,” The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, line 55
““I know you priests believe six impossible things every day before breakfast,” I said. “Some of you, anyway. I think most of you are parasites who live off the gullible, the ignorant and the desperate. I don’t think any of you who get ahead believe what you preach. You sure never practice it.””
— Glen Cook, Cold Copper Tears (1988), Chapter 50
“I knew as well as anyone that the priests taught what they wanted us to know, not necessarily what was true. And sometimes even when they told the truth, they got it wrong.”
— N. K. Jemisin, The Broken Kingdoms (2011), Chapter 5
“The celebrated phrase, 'so much the worse for the facts', would satisfy only the high priests of Marxism, for Marxism also has its high priests, and these priests, like all others, daily deny the principles they claim to defend. Bolshevism is a living proof of this.”
— Lucien Laurat, Marxism and Democracy, 1940, published by the , Victor Gollancz Ltd, London; translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Text online at the .
“I am a priest. It’s my job to whip individuals or groups into a frenzy.”
— Robert J. Sawyer, Far-Seer (1992), , p. 218
“As formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen.”
— Thomas Szasz, The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1997), p. 160

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