If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Anytime you feel like you don't have any work to do, just look around. Look for what God had started doing and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The first life insurance societies where formed in England in the years between 1692 and 1720. In America, life insurance became available… — Andrew Tobias 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
I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2)… — Peter Kreeft 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 barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
By the former of these (canon law), the most refined, sublime, extensive, and astonishing constitution of policy that ever was conceived by… — John Adams Copy Share Image
......the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews. — Cheech Marin 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
The grateful applause of the clergy has consecrated the memory of a prince, who indulged their passions and promoted their interest. Constantine… — Edward Gibbon 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
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
It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it. — Patrick Henry 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 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
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
Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and now: What… — Elaine Pagels 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 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
That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy… — Alan Green Copy Share Image