Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men. — Richard P. Stanley Copy Share Image
I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression. — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way. — William P. Leahy Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Body have to physically strong and sturdy. Spiritually balanced fi clean and purge me. Mentally advanced fi always urge me. Read a… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I ask the clergy why don't I see myself represented in leadership? And I'm told, and this happens quite a bit, "We… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent,… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was the biggest George Harrison fanatic in the world. He was raised Catholic; my parents are both ex-clergy, so I was… — John Fugelsang Copy Share Image
“We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Because sometimes the Church seems like those posed circus tableaus where the curtain lifts and men, white, zinc-oxide, talcum-powder statues, freeze to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The minister asks, 'What right have you to hope? It is sacrilegious to you.' But, whether the clergy like it or not,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
But the most dangerous Hypocrite in a Common-Wealth, is one who leaves the Gospel for the sake of the Law: A Man… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
You mean am I for it or against it? You think this is a key question I'm going to be asked on… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The history of the world for the past several centuries and current events at home and abroad confirm the existence of such… — Benjamin H. Freedman Copy Share Image
God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy. — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy]. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among… — David Augsburger Copy Share Image
You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics,… — William P. Leahy Copy Share Image
Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
You mean 'Injustice Sunday II', ... is using religion to alienate people rather than to bring people together. It has more to… — Tim McDonald Copy Share Image
The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
The clergy are at present divided into three sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
so long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows… — Anne Roe Copy Share Image
I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world.… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
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