Clergymen Quotes

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In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman. — George Carlin
There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon… — Mark Twain
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
Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable.… — Charlton Heston
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. — William Nelson
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
I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really that harmful because… — Steven Weinberg
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
In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another… — Virchand Gandhi
It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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;… — Paul Pruyser
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

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