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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

While some are as loathe to trade a Bishop for a Knight as a Cadillac for a Chevrolet, others are prepared to do so without hesitation. — Larry Evans

An archbishop is an ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop. — Ambrose Bierce

God is love, the bishops tell.
Yes, I know, But love is hell. — T.H. White

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

I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome. — Hans Kung

We are weak Christians simply because we have refused to be bondservants of Christ — Paul Gitwaza

I don't have much use for bishops. There's a reason they're called primates. — Mark Schweizer

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

For Joey Bishop, always was kind of the lost soul, so I did a traffic joke. — Garry Marshall

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've had to remove all mirrors from my home. I just can't seem to look at myself without having to buff the bishop, you know? — Zach Braff

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

Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards. — Jacob Aagaard

There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job. — Peter Hollingworth

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions. — Frank Butler

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

Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes. — John Lennon

Let's be clear, I'm one of the thicker bishops in the Church of England. — Justin Welby

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

I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture. — Anne Rice

the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: — Anonymous

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

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

Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost. — Yuri Razuvaev

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

I think there are a number of bishops - and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category - who listen too much to his lawyer and not enough to his heart. — Frank Keating

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

Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel. — Martin Luther

Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known. — John Wycliffe