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My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me and tell me their most appalling stories. they have to make their confession to somebody, and it might as well be me.

-Chuck Palahniuk

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My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me and tell me their most appalling stories. they have to make their confession to somebody, and it might as well be me.

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Civilization, let me tell you what it is. first the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. the merchant hires the soldier and priest to conquer the country for him. first the soldier, he is a murderer; then the priest, he is a liar; then the merchant, he is a thief; and they all bring in the lawyer to make their laws and defend their deeds, and there you have your civilization!

Everyone say to himself: 'when was the last time i went to confession?' and if it has been a long time, don't lose another day! go, the priest will be good. and jesus, (will be) there, and jesus is better than the priests - jesus receives you. he will receive you with so much love! be courageous, and go to confession.

The priest is not made. he must be born a priest; must inherit his office. i refer to the new birth-the birth of water and the spirit. thus all christians must became priests, children of god and co-heirs with christ the most high priest.

I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function... stories exist. they keep us sane, i think. we tell each other stories, we believe stories. i love watching the slow rise of the urban legend. they're the stories that we use to explain ourselves to ourselves.

The nigerian storyteller ben okri says that ‘in a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. one way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, or we are also living the stories we planted — knowingly or unknowingly — in ourselves. we live stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. if we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives.’

The world looks to the priest, because it looks to jesus! no one can see christ; but everyone sees the priest, and through him they wish to catch a glimpse of the lord! immense is the grandeur of the lord! immense is the grandeur and dignity of the priest!

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