Doctors try to get rid of their patients - clergymen try…

The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little…

— Alan Watts

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

— James Gibbons

I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on…

— Charles Darwin

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

— Samuel Johnson

There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to…

— Julius Streicher

Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so…

— H. L. Mencken

One person I do feel a little sorry for, though, is the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most important clergyman in Britain and he's only…

— Pat Condell

“Clergymen, judges, statesmen--the wisest, calmest, holiest persons of their day--stood in the inner circle round about the gallows, loudest to applaud the work of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish.

— Billy Graham

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

— John Flavel

The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent…

— Mark Twain

I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or…

— John F. Kennedy

“All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, — all except…

— Virchand Gandhi

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked,…

— Steven Wright