Clergymen Quote by Elizabeth Aston Download Open image “Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.” — Elizabeth Aston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clergymen Men Religion
[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it excels the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without… — Henry VIII of England Copy Share Image
you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“For all clergymen whom I had yet met, regarded mankind and their interests solely from the clerical point of view, seeming far more desirous that a man should be a good church man, as they called it, than that he should love God. Hence, there was always an indescribable and, to me, unpleasant odour of their profession about them. If… — George MacDonald Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.” — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage. — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
“Innocence might be its own reward, but when it boardered on naivete, if not stupidity, it was unforgivable.” — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market. — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind. — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult. — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked,… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, — all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. But Christian clergymen are well aware that if they were to attempt to… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share
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 national origin - where every citizen is free to think and speak as he pleases and write and worship as he pleases - and where every citizen is free to vote as he pleases, without… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have a personal interest in their survival ... all thought the main reason for the quiet sway of religion over their country was the complete separation of church and state. I have no hesitation in stating that… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share
The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
One person I do feel a little sorry for, though, is the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most important clergyman in Britain and he's only got two lousy palaces to live in. What sort of life is that for a man of God? I bet if Jesus came back, even he'd be embarrassed for him; I bet he wouldn't be able… — Pat Condell Copy Share
Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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