In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway. — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as… — James Gibbons Copy Share Image
The capitalist has this over the politician and the clergyman; he has in practice done more to raise the standard of living… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
When a minister or a clergyman takes seriously unfashionable Christian doctrines which condemn sex outside marriage, homosexuality, abortion, and feminism, and injects… — Benjamin Hart Copy Share Image
One person I do feel a little sorry for, though, is the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most important clergyman in Britain and… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
We do know for sure that good Irish Catholics followed their faith in the direction of inclusion, compassion, equality, justice, and a… — Mary E. Hunt Copy Share Image
I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word soul has lost its meaning and even its plausibility… Faith, hope and love can no longer be seen simply as… — Paul Pruyser Copy Share Image
As a good Christian should consider every place as holy, because God is there, so he should look upon every part of… — William Law Copy Share Image
I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is… — Augustus Toplady Copy Share Image
No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
When we were little, we kept close to our mother in a dark alley or if dogs barked at us. Now, when… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame,… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire… — Peter Canisius Copy Share Image
