Best Clergy Quotations
97 Clergy quotes by 73 unique authors
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The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.
— Rodney Stark
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a…
— Saint Ambrose
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From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
— Nikola Tesla
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If you need help, look to clergy who do not spout their own beliefs but direct you in sincerity by using the Bible.
— Monica Johnson
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the…
— L. Lionel Kendrick
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Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among clergy and laity…
— David Augsburger
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Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that different places are…
— Julianne Moore
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The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
— John Hurt
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The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become…
— Abdolkarim Soroush
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Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.
— Michel Onfray
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
— Baron d'Holbach
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You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.
— Benjamin Jowett
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Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary…
— Roland Allen
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It is the half-Christian clergy of every denomination that are the main cause of the so-called failure of the church of Christ
— George MacDonald
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The masturbation myth is absolutely responsible for more unwanted pregnancies and diseases than anything else on the planet earth. During the middle ages, dictator-like religious…
— Johnny Luckett
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Two studies from the year 2000, however, indicate that Catholics give lower ratings to their clergy's ministerial activities across the board than do Protestants.
— Andrew Greeley
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You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in…
— William P. Leahy
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People expect the clergy to have the grace of a swan, the friendliness of a sparrow, the strength of an eagle and the night hours…
— Unknown Author
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Body have to physically strong and sturdy. Spiritually balanced fi clean and purge me. Mentally advanced fi always urge me. Read a couple books and…
— Damian Marley
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During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride…
— James Madison
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...I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be had, either by persuasion or by bribery.…
— Sarah M Grimke
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Don't fall for lines like, God protects his servants in the clergy from harm.
— Nikhil Saluja
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