Clergy Quotes

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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
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
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
The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy]. — Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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
The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy. — George Washington
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
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
By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men. — Richard P. Stanley
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
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
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
Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty! — Pope Pius X
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
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
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
It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. — Patrick Henry
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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