Clergy Quote by Charles Kingsley Download Open image “Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.” — Charles Kingsley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clergy Sake Truth Virtue
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
He never sold the truth to serve the hour, nor paltered with Eternal God for power. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The Roman Pontiffs have always...held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor from what… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him. — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to every gesture,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way. Are you utterly helpless, worn… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
My friends, let us try to follow the Saviour's steps; let us remember all day long what it is to be men; that it… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
... the heroism of the average mother. Ah! When I think of that broad fact, I gather hope again for poor humanity; and this… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The great object was to get rid of Christianity, and to convert our churches into halls of science. The plan was not to make… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy. — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“There exists indeed an opposition to it [ building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college ] by the friends of William and Mary, which is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated onto its… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
so long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows that he… — Anne Roe Copy Share Image