Clergy Quotes
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Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls. — George MacDonald
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not, what they ought to be, so are the nation.
— Jane Austen
Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.
— Mark Twain
Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.
— William P. Leahy
Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.
— Lancelot Andrewes
The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.
— George Washington
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
— Richard Rohr
I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
He believed there were too many black clergy who were selling heaven to the people.2
— Clarence Taylor
For both Protestants and Catholics, and whether or not absolute continence is demanded of the clergy, celibacy remains a blessed spiritual state.
— Meir Soloveichik
In front of an audience of Protestant clergy, the Catholic JFK was drawing strength from his vulnerability.
— David Pietrusza
You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.
— Benjamin Jowett
I was raised in a Catholic family, spent twelve years in parochial schools, and had extremely fond memories of my interactions with Catholic clergy.
— Jennifer Haigh
God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.
— Elbert Hubbard
The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.
— Thomas Jefferson
Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.
— Benjamin Jowett
Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.
— Rudolph Rummel
But as we did without clergy, let us do without soldiers.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
— Thomas Jefferson
The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.
— Martin Luther
Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.
— Emily Murphy
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— Willa Cather
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.
— Marquis De Lafayette
Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.
— John Ruskin
Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.
— Dallin H. Oaks
The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.["Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming," The Westminster Review, 1885.] — George Eliot
Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty!
— Pope Pius X
If you need help, look to clergy who do not spout their own beliefs but direct you in sincerity by using the Bible.
— Monica Johnson
Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.
— Charlotte Bronte
Perhaps you could not find such godless, such ruthless and such materialist people as clergy.
— Irving Stone
The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.
— John Selden
The profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!
— Margaret Deland
By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.
— Richard P. Stanley
The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.
— Madame De Stael
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.
— Edward Gibbon
From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
— Nikola Tesla
The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.
— Rodney Stark
I am predominantly critical concerning the activities, and especially the political activities, through history of the official clergy.
— Albert Einstein
I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.
— Samuel Johnson
Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.
— Michel Onfray
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
— Rudyard Kipling
Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.
— Charles Kingsley
Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The clergy were to pray for all men, the knight to fight for them, and the commoner to work that all might eat.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.
— Harriet Martineau
The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
— Franz Grillparzer
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The law for religious freedom ... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.
— Thomas Jefferson
Have we arrived at our own faith and our own path or simply internalized the beliefs of parents, clergy, spouse, or friends?
— Joan Z. Borysenko
Clergy are men as well as other folks.
— Henry Fielding
