The next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergyman's rate. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons. — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.' — George McGovern Copy Share Image
The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches. — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Doctors try to get rid of their patients - clergymen try to get them hooked on the medicine so that they will… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute,… — Menno Simons Copy Share Image
“Clergymen, judges, statesmen--the wisest, calmest, holiest persons of their day--stood in the inner circle round about the gallows, loudest to applaud the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“For all clergymen whom I had yet met, regarded mankind and their interests solely from the clerical point of view, seeming far… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Take an instance: the removal of the motto [In God We Trust] fetched out a clamor from the pulpit; little groups and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, —… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
“A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish—read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
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