From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. — Carl Sagan 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 people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes. — John Selden Copy Share Image
The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church. — Rodney Stark 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
What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries… — Jean Giraudoux 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
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
You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite… — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but… — Barbara Tuchman 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
Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All live by seeming. The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming;… — Walter Scott 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
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise… During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of closet charismatics out there. A lot of [clergy] personally have had their vocations saved because… — Ralph Martin 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 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
“The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course. He has… — Hans Küng Copy Share Image
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy. — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
Don't fall for lines like, God protects his servants in the clergy from harm. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am Presbyterian and Protestant. I've had great relationships and developed even greater relationships with ministers. We have tremendous support from the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The typical clergy/laity system practiced among most churches is detrimental to believers. In this system only a professional class of people teaches… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
It is a very rare church indeed that encourages its members to think for themselves in religious matters, or even tolerates this,… — Anne Roe Copy Share Image
In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of… — James Madison 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
Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
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