Clergy Quotes

The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

— Mark Twain

I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“But as we did without clergy, let us do without soldiers.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

— Anonymous

You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.

— Benjamin Jowett

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

— Henry David Thoreau

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

— Benjamin Jowett

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

— Franz Grillparzer

It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.

— Carl Jung

The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood.

— Henry David Thoreau

If you need help, look to clergy who do not spout their own beliefs but direct you in sincerity by using the…

— Monica Johnson

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

— Patrick Henry

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

You mean 'Injustice Sunday II', ... is using religion to alienate people rather than to bring people together. It has more to…

— Tim McDonald

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

Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority…

— Bernie Siegel

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

The clergy are at present divided into three sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are…

— Thomas Huxley

so long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows…

— Anne Roe

Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and…

— James Connolly

“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

During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware that I…

— Ross Douthat

Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real…

— Fannie Barrier Williams

I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against…

— Henry VIII of England

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

There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2)…

— Peter Kreeft

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

The minister asks, 'What right have you to hope? It is sacrilegious to you.' But, whether the clergy like it or not,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“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

“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

“When the clergy addressed General Washington on his departure from the government, it was observed in their consultation that he had never…

— Thomas Jefferson

“...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized…

— John Adams

“Sometimes silences are pregnant and sometimes not. It is hard to know what to make of the silence of much of the…

— Ben Witherington III

Who is telling us about the false self today? Who is even equipped tell us? Many clergy have not figured this out…

— Richard Rohr

“There exists indeed an opposition to it [ building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college ] by the friends of William and Mary,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish—read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His…

— Jane Austen

No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no…

— Henry James