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The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way. — William P. Leahy
According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned.… — C. Wright Mills
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. — Richard Rohr
Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples… — Alister E. McGrath
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the… — C.S. Lewis
He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase… — Alfred the Great
You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the… — Karl Philipp Moritz
The system of fathers of the world church, the clergy system of the state church, and the pastoral system of the independent churches are all… — Watchman Nee
The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work and that… — Andrew Greeley
Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy. — Charles Kingsley
You mean 'Injustice Sunday II', ... is using religion to alienate people rather than to bring people together. It has more to do with politics… — Tim McDonald
My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you. — Benjamin Jowett
The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Humility is a virtue all men preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servants,… — John Selden
If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time. — C.S. Lewis
Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of… — Thomas Jefferson
Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression. — Rudolph Rummel
A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually… — William Hazlitt
Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls. — George MacDonald
How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles,… — Henry James
In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and,… — Jean Giraudoux
I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. — Samuel Johnson
Clergy are men as well as other folks. — Henry Fielding

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