Clergy Quotes · Page 3

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

— Henry David Thoreau

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

— Franz Grillparzer

It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.

— Carl Jung

If you need help, look to clergy who do not spout their own beliefs but direct you in sincerity by using the…

— Monica Johnson

The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood.

— Henry David Thoreau

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

— Henry David Thoreau

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

— Marquis de Lafayette

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

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries…

— Jean Giraudoux

The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and…

— Rosa Luxemburg

I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal…

— Branch Rickey

By the former of these (canon law), the most refined, sublime, extensive, and astonishing constitution of policy that ever was conceived by…

— John Adams

The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but…

— Barbara Tuchman

While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family,…

— Jane Jacobs

The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and…

— Nadeem Aslam

You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate…

— Thomas Jefferson

Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real…

— Fannie Barrier Williams

I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against…

— Henry VIII of England

Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the…

— Henry David Thoreau

During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware that I…

— Ross Douthat

There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2)…

— Peter Kreeft

I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had…

— Adolf Hitler

I join with Michael Brown's family, and with the clergy, and with anyone and everyone else; the NAACP, the Urban League, and…

— Robert P. McCulloch

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

— Benjamin Jowett

Don't fall for lines like, God protects his servants in the clergy from harm.

— Nikhil Saluja

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

— Thomas Jefferson

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his…

— Honore de Balzac

Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may…

— Lancelot Andrewes

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

— Nikola Tesla

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

— Carl Sagan

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

— Thomas Jefferson

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 people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

— Madame de Stael

The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.

— Rodney Stark

Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.

— Charlotte Bronte

The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.

— John Selden

In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is…

— Stendhal

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

— Richard Rohr

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.

— Edward Gibbon