I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted? — George Carlin 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
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
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
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
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go. — St. Jerome 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
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
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
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
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
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
Europeans still read rather than watching TV or listening to their clergyman tell them how to vote. The European magazines are far… — Peter Menzel 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
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
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
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 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 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
If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm… — Craig Ferguson 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether… — John Wesley 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
In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers, And serves the altar, in… — William Cowper 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
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
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
It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford 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
