History Quote by Frank Herbert

“When ministers wield absolute authority, everyone loses, even God.”

— Stephen Arterburn

“Although we are all equally priests, we cannot all publicly minister and teach.”

— Martin Luther

“I should be the last to deny that the lordly prelates serve their own ambition and avarice before anything else; the higher their rank…

— Hella S. Haasse

“The church’s principal officers are not monks, artisans, and a retinue of priests whose calling is to serve images they’ve made, but heralds, announcing…

— Michael S. Horton

“That at present, in the consecrated space at the very summit of the hierarchy of this world there exists a godlike, demonlike ruler whose…

— Shunji Ohkura

“I am writing this as a profession of faith: I believe in a divine providence; I also believe in God's wisdom and goodness; I…

— Albert Speer

“Perhaps you could not find such godless, such ruthless and such materialist people as clergy.”

— Irving Stone

“That which ministers have received of the Lord they must deliver to his people, and keep back nothing that is profitable.”

— Matthew Henry

“But herein also lies an irony, for there is more than one kind of power and one kind of authority. The power of the…

— Thomas Talbott

“Ministers, who now often meet their people to preach to ’em the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, to convince ’em that there is a…

— Jonathan Edwards

“It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not, what they ought to be, so are the nation.”

— Jane Austen

“That we shall, in like manner, without respect of persons endeavour the extirpation of Popery, Prelacy, (that is, church-government by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellors,…

— Various