Best Clergymen Quotes
54 Clergymen quotes by 48 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
— Pat Robertson
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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
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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
— Samuel Richardson
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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
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Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.
— Oscar Wilde
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I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
— George McGovern
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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
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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
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Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
— George MacDonald
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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
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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
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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
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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
— George Carlin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.
— Agatha Christie
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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
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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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