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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
For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers,… — William Butler Yeats
I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and… — Alfred Russel Wallace
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? — Pat Robertson
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
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or… — Aldous Huxley
Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation. — Oscar Wilde
I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. — Samuel Johnson
Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.' — George McGovern
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men. — Vincent Van Gogh
From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes.… — Roger Ebert
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom. — George MacDonald
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any… — Herman Melville
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to… — Evelyn Waugh
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen,… — John Wesley
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted? — George Carlin
The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing… — C.S. Lewis
Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway. — Mary Kay Andrews
Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all… — Harper Lee
Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely. — Agatha Christie
I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the… — George MacDonald Fraser
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk,… — Charles Dickens

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