Bishops Quotes

Lithuanian bishops have been heroic!

— Pope Francis

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.

— Richard Dawkins

That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.

— Brendan Behan

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

— Ernest Hemingway

The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

In blitz, the Knight is stronger than the Bishop

— Vlastimil Hort

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.

— Brendan Behan

I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.

— Thomas Huxley

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

— Oscar Wilde

Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.

— Yuri Razuvaev

The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.

— Victor Hugo

If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be; The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant-'We trust in thee!'

— Leigh Hunt

You may have the bishop pair but I have the ultimate advantage; I am the better player!

— John Adams

I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

— Hans Kung

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

— Pope Francis

One man alone had really known the sciences, namely, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln.

— Roger Bacon

While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every…

— Edward Gibbon

I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me,…

— John Vianney

There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will…

— Matthew Arnold

Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they…

— Thomas Hardy

Do not, brethren, put your trust in man though he be a bishop, an apostle, or a president. If you do, they…

— George Q. Cannon

The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the…

— Pope Francis

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets…

— Thom Gunn

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

— Joseph Priestley

You might get rid of the Bishop and get to the local Ku Klux Klan leader. That, on the whole, has been…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

In the spiritual reality of the church, neither Marcel Lefebvre, nor his bishops and priests, nor the people who frequent the SSPX…

— Malachi Martin

No further issues with Corinne Bishop or her kin in Detroit?” “Hunter didn’t seem to be concerned,” Gideon replied. “Said he had…

— Anonymous

Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I…

— Elizabeth Bishop

It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or…

— Susan Jacoby

We cannot know what John of Leyden felt Under the Bishop 's tongs - we can only Walk in temperate London, our…

— Peter Porter

Remember, presidents and bishops, that the callings of your associates are just as divinely inspired as is yours, and they are therefore…

— M. Russell Ballard

“Christ is certainly distressed to see and to hear priests and bishops, who ought to be protecting the integrity of the teaching…

— Robert Sarah

Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before going to bed. The former bishop of Turkey will…

— David Sedaris

“If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in…

— ben franklin

If some day they take the radio station away from us, if they close down our newspaper, if they don’t let us…

— Oscar Romero

If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would…

— Edward Gibbon

“I am a cuddly atheist... I am against creationism being taught in schools because there is empirical evidence that it is a…

— Jim Al-Khalili

As you climb the mountains of life, stay on the path of virtue. There will be others to help you- your parents,…

— Elaine S. Dalton

One of my great experiences in life was to be interviewed on a late-night talk show by a guy named Tom Snyder.…

— John Shelby Spong

Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to…

— Mark Steyn