Bishops Quotes
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If you want someone to help you heal then you don't go to the enemy; you go to the one person that fears a bad reputation if they don't help you.
— Shannon L. Alder
It is fascinating to see how much Pope Francis relies on the work of the bishops in the Synods.
— Christoph Schonborn
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."
— Sydney Smith
Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration.
— Boyd K. Packer
With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
— Richard Dawkins
Some pieces in the King's Indian appear on a 'special price' list: the dark square bishops are at the top of that list.
— David Bronstein
If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'
— Brad Leithauser
A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.
— Julian Assange
The bishop is a lot like me ... just when you think you have me, I'm already behind you.
— Priest Holmes
Clearly i Bible times, women were used in ministry leadership roles, and still are today.
— Debora Hooper
[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!
— Queen Victoria
I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop
— Samuel Johnson
Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.
— Carl Van Vechten
If you become a Nun, dear,The bishop Love will be;
The Cupids every one, dear!
Will chant-'We trust in thee!' — Leigh Hunt
Lithuanian bishops have been heroic!
— Pope Francis
When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it't was no matter what he said. — Lord Byron
He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually paid my way to Hollywood.
— Garry Marshall
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
— Brendan Behan
The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.
— Cormac McCarthy
Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.
— George Bernard Shaw
As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition.
— Eugene Kennedy
JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.
— Kitty Kelley
To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
— John Maynard Keynes
There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.
— Peter Hollingworth
What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.
— Monica Furlong
Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops
— Brennan Manning
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
— John Ruskin
We were like bishops of opposite color.
— Boris Spassky
Only do not rebel against the LORD! You need not be afraid
— United States Conference Of Catholic Bishops
The bishops eat from my hand.
— Maurice Duplessis
A bench of bishops is the devils flower garden
— Unattributed
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There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."
— Matthew Arnold
Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process.
— David Blunkett
I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish.
— Saint John Chrysostom
I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.
— Thomas Huxley
Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.
— Terry Pratchett
Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.
— Cary Grant
The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun.
— Richard Cushing
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.
— Oscar Wilde
Bishop, this is a full tithe and a little bit more, because that's the way we have been blessed.
— Henry D. Moyle
Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.
— P.G. Wodehouse
The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.
— Saint John Chrysostom
The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.
— Viktor Korchnoi
For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?
— William Tyndale
British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.
— James Joyce
Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-hearted, but memorable!
— Michael Leunig
Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church
— Ignatius Of Antioch
The future belongs to he who has the bishops.
— Siegbert Tarrasch
I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed
— Emanuel Lasker
