Clergy Quotes
97 quotes by 76 authors
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of…
— Jane Austen
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I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had I known the…
— Adolf Hitler
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The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
— Thomas Jefferson
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The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such…
— James Madison
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The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.
— George Washington
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There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of…
— Albert Einstein
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The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.
— Richard P. Stanley
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The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep…
— Leo Tolstoy
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We need some clergy with some backbone, who don't mind making uncomfortable at times those who are very comfortable, and challenging them at the core…
— Tim McDonald
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It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of the faithful and…
— Pope Pius X
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Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty!
— Pope Pius X
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During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power…
— Ross Douthat
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You mean am I for it or against it? You think this is a key question I'm going to be asked on Vega, and you…
— Carl Sagan
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If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the taxes of women…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.
— Patrick Henry
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If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for…
— Charles Hodge
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