The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something… — John Flavel 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
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
Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don't affect their lives because they're in a different tax bracket. Or… — Stevie Wonder 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
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
The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science:… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches. — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons. — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for… — Kate Greenaway Copy Share Image
A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute,… — Menno Simons Copy Share Image
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children… — Alan Watts 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
Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“The religious issue was dragged out, and stirred up flames of hatred and intolerance. Clergymen, mobilizing their heaviest artillery of thunder and… — Saul K. Padover Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
He--the country parson--is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered. — William Nelson Copy Share Image
