Clergy Quote by Dallin H. Oaks

Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do…

— Bertrand Russell

Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival…

— H. L. Mencken

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

— Henry Fielding

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance…

— Rowan Atkinson

“The typical clergy/laity system practiced among most churches is detrimental to believers. In this system only a professional class of people teaches and preaches,…

— Henry Hon

Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very…

— Charlton Heston

I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.

— Hilaire Belloc

The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he…

— Samuel Johnson

The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the danger of…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however;…

— Christian Smith

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

— Robert Genn

“A true theology must be a preachable theology, and it must speak to the hearts and minds of believers, even if they do not…

— Gerald Bray