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
Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
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
The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen 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
“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
“When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with the enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men. — Richard P. Stanley Copy Share Image
I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family,… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing… — Frederica Mathewes-Green 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
The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative… — Andrew Greeley 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
I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world.… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers. [ "Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming," The Westminster Review, 1885. ]” — 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
Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the… — Sherwin Wine 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
