there comes a time in every rabbi's life when he thinks he's Moses. — Silvia Tennenbaum 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
Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy. — Charles Kingsley 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
It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it. — Patrick Henry 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
It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department. — John Hurt 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
Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Body have to physically strong and sturdy. Spiritually balanced fi clean and purge me. Mentally advanced fi always urge me. Read a… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I ask the clergy why don't I see myself represented in leadership? And I'm told, and this happens quite a bit, "We… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent,… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
I was the biggest George Harrison fanatic in the world. He was raised Catholic; my parents are both ex-clergy, so I was… — John Fugelsang Copy Share Image
I join with Michael Brown's family, and with the clergy, and with anyone and everyone else; the NAACP, the Urban League, and… — Robert P. McCulloch Copy Share Image
How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Laypeople are a kind of nuclear energy in the Church on a spiritual level. A layperson caught up with the gospel and… — Raniero Cantalamessa 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
“I miss the honor of serving as a parish pastor. There is nothing quite like it. The most challenging aspect of the… — Matthew C. Harrison Copy Share Image
There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
“If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they… — Robert G. Ingersoll 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
“This is, indeed, an insightful observation. The Archbishop [Joseph L. Berardin] insists that the natural resemblance between Christ and his priests must… — Paul King Jewett Copy Share Image
Someone who's asking questions of the clergy, that he doesn't have the answers to, I think that's a universal predicament. — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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![“[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the]…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/612/thomas-jefferson-43_atheism_if-the-nature-of-government-were-a-subor_2243937.jpg)
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