Best Clergy Sayings

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The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes. — John Selden
We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel
The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were… — Barbara Tuchman
What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye… — Augustus William Hare
One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal labor government has… — Dan Barker
There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our Americanism: the ability… — Natalie Merchant
The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind. — Thomas Jefferson
You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews. — Cheech Marin
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues. — Edward Gibbon
Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James… — Dallin H. Oaks
The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know. — Robert Green Ingersoll
[Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be shut up and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials. — Pope Francis
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. — Rudyard Kipling
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy. — Marquis de Lafayette
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. — Carl Sagan
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render… — Jonathan Swift
until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going… — C.S. Lewis
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all… — Thomas Jefferson
The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not… — Nadeem Aslam
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been… — James Madison
Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the… — David Hume
I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of… — Branch Rickey
The Church, rightly conceived, is the whole covenant people called to serve in the world. The clergy are also part of the laity, and their… — Unknown Author

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