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
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
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow. — Herman Melville 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
You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics,… — William P. Leahy 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
The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question. — Harriet Martineau 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
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
The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The history of the world for the past several centuries and current events at home and abroad confirm the existence of such… — Benjamin H. Freedman 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 first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Have we arrived at our own faith and our own path or simply internalized the beliefs of parents, clergy, spouse, or friends? — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
Humility is a virtue all men preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way. — William P. Leahy Copy Share Image
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