Clergyman Quotes

38 Clergyman quotes by 33 unique authors

In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman. — George Carlin
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex… — Bill Bryson
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the… — Jane Austen
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman. — Samuel Johnson
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. — Henry Fielding
I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity;… — Charles Darwin
Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish. — Billy Graham
Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered. — Unknown Author
I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or… — Nigella Lawson
What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from… — H. L. Mencken
Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great… — Ernst Mayr
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones. — Ambrose Bierce
SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now… — Ambrose Bierce
The word soul has lost its meaning and even its plausibility.... Faith, hope and love can no longer be seen simply as virtues or graces;… — Unknown Author
I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their… — John F. Kennedy
No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible… — Wallace D. Wattles
Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven. — H. L. Mencken
I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government once again the… — Ronald Reagan
I explained we lost the porch to the flood. Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a good carpenter. He says if… — Franny Billingsley
There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a… — Julius Streicher
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
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing. — Samuel Richardson
I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. — Samuel Johnson
My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.' — George McGovern
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go. — St. Jerome

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