He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine… — John Selden Copy Share Image
The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities…The so-called clergy stupefy the masses…They befog the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think… — Warren Giles Copy Share Image
Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When I was a young priest in the 1960s and 1970s, there was much experimentation and confusion in the Church. Teachers and… — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
And sometimes the clergy are blindsided by that. Other times they realize that ahead of time and say they're not going to… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
“A missionary church cannot rely on the professional ministry for the primary work of mission. The role of the laity is critical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“But of course, when they ask for a "lead from the church," most people mean they want the clergy to put out… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
Yet the people, and even the clergy, incapable of forming any rational judgment of the business of peace and war, presumed to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences.… — Hans Küng Copy Share Image
Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It was in this year, 1828, that the standard of "the Christian Party in Politics" was openly unfurled... This was an evident… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
[Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Church expects that each of us carry a share of the burden of leadership. There is no paid clergy. The work… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
the most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy. ...… — Lillie Devereux Blake Copy Share Image
[On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male… — Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks Copy Share Image
Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is clearly absurd that it should be possible for a woman to qualify as a saint with direct access to the… — Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks Copy Share Image
When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
The system of fathers of the world church, the clergy system of the state church, and the pastoral system of the independent… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. When they fail to come off its clergy simply say… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Iran is hard to understand. Although it is ruled in an authoritarian manner, it's not a state in which everything is controlled… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
![“According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.” quote by C. Wright Mills](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/da1/c-wright-mills-9475_agnostic_according-to-your-belief-christian-clerg_1618491.jpg)
![“[Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be shut up and a new order of things [will] begin.” quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dbc/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_average_whenever-the-average-intellect-of-the-cl_1328223.jpg)
![“A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.” quote by William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e55/william-hazlitt-326_benefits_a-felon-could-plead-benefit-of-clergy-an_323390.jpg)
![“[On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male closed shop, seeing that, to judge from church attendance, women are the more religious sex - while our criminal statistics make quite clear that they are the least wicked.” quote by Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6cc/mary-stocks-baroness-stocks-77_activity_on-women-as-priests-it-has-always-seemed_2325007.jpg)
