The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service. — Robert Southey 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
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
I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake… — George MacDonald Fraser 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
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
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.' — George McGovern 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
The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
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
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
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those… — Henri Nouwen 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
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be… — John Wesley 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
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
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
In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman. — George Carlin 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
