Priest's Backwards Collar

A little boy gets on the bus, sits next to a man reading a newspaper, and notices he has his collar on backwards.
The little boy asks why he wears his collar that way.
The man, who is a priest, says, “I am a Father.”

The little boy replies, “My father doesn’t wear his collar like that.”
The priest looks up from his paper and answers, “I am the Father of many.”

The little boy says, “My dad has four girls, four boys, and two grandchildren, and he doesn’t wear his collar that way.”
The priest, getting impatient, says, “I am the Father of hundreds,” and went back to reading his paper.

The little boy sits quietly, but on leaving the bus, leans over and says, “Well, maybe you should wear your pants backwards instead of your collar.”

QuotaBills

The work praises the man. - Irish Proverb

Center Of Mass: The Priest - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Praise doesn't pay the bills. - German Proverb

The best way to get praise is to die. - Italian Proverb

Praising all alike, is praising none. - John Gay

Praise the ripe field, not the green corn. - Unknown

That Meathead calls me a religious phonetic. - Archie Bunker

Religion is the search for ultimate meaning. - Viktor Frankl

Praise, like sunlight, helps all things grow. - Croft M Pentz

The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises. - Emma Donoghue

May your life preach more loudly than your lips. - William E Channing

The only way you can fail is if you stop praying. - Mark Batterson

No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country. - Edward Everett Hale

The atheist religion don't believe in the bible. - Archie Bunker

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. - W Somerset Maugham

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. - Mother Jones

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame. - Thomas Fuller

When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer. - David Jeremiah

To praise great actions is in some sense to share them. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it. - John Wesley

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. - Oscar Wilde

Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

Whatever you don't turn into Praise turns into Pride. - Mark Batterson

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. - Henry Ward Beecher

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. - Ovid

In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce. - Francesco Caracciolo

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. - C S Lewis

Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave. - James R Lowell

No man has ever praised two persons equally - and pleased them both. - Arthur Helps

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over. - Charles H Spurgeon

Fools may our scorn, not envy raise,
For envy is a kind of praise. - John Gay

I found a country [America] with thirty-two religions and only one sauce. - Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perogord

The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion is the essence of culture, and culture is the dress of religion. - Paul Tillich

There is a world of practical religion in simply being considerate of others. - Roger Babson

I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon. - Phillip Pullman

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. - Oprah Winfrey

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now? - C S Lewis

I definitely want my son Brooklyn christened, but I don't know into what religion yet. - David Beckham

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself. - Vance Havner

Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. - Faith Baldwin

It is important to understand that it is a prayer life that builds character that honours God. - Ravi Zacharias

The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked. - Mark Batterson

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. - Charles Caleb Colton

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes. - Mark Batterson

Most people have some sort of religion, at least they know which church they're staying away from. - John Erskine

He made us all one true religion, Edith, which he named after his son, Christian - or Christ, for short. - Archie Bunker

The task of organized religion is not to prove that God was in the 1st century, but that he is in the 20th. - S.H. Miller

The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching. - E.M. Bounds

Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself. - Mark Batterson

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. - Mark Twain

Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough. - Propertius

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers. - Colleen Hoover

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible. - George Burns

Some preachers think only of their sermon; others think only of themselves: the man who wins the soul is the man who aims at it. - Dean Hook

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. - John Muir

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No - when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. - Abraham Lincoln

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. - Leo Tolstoy

Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. - Mark Batterson

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. - Robert F. Kennedy

Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds,
That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,
Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. - John Milton

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us. - Charles H Spurgeon

Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!' - Conan O'Brien

To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame. - Sandra L. Douglas

Priest's Backwards Collar

Father of Many

02-Jul-2022