There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
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
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
Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
By the very nature of being a clergyman's son, people tend to put you slightly apart, which is - you tend to… — John Hurt 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
Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed… — Harper Lee 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
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
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
When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way… — Mike Huckabee 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
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
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
Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines. — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
“I explained we lost the porch to the flood. 'Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a good carpenter.… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
