Bishops Quotes

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Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical,… — Henry Adams
Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion. — George Bernard Shaw
And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx. — Jamie Foxx
In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches,… — Pope Francis
The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls,… — Pope Francis
When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of… — Pope Francis
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard… — Henry Louis Gates
Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights… — Stockwell Day
My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image. — Grace Jones
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God,… — Hans Kung
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the… — Pope John Paul II
I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I… — Colm Toibin
The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex… — Richard Dawkins
Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that… — Thomas Hardy
The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty. — Victor Hugo
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler
Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your… — C.S. Lewis
Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be. — Terry Pratchett
At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon â€• the date of Easter, the role… — Dan Brown

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