Agnostic Quote by H. L. Mencken

CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.

— Ambrose Bierce

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

— Voltaire

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

— Samuel Johnson

As a good Christian should consider every place as holy, because God is there, so he should look upon every part of his life…

— William Law

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 world needs a pastor, whether it knows it or not.

— George Weigel

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.

— Samuel Johnson

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

— Samuel Richardson

The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches.

— Chapman Cohen

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself…

— Evelyn Waugh

In the immense cathedral which is the universe of God, each person, whether scholar or manual laborer, is called to act as the priest…

— Paul Evdokimov

The Church, rightly conceived, is the whole covenant people called to serve in the world. The clergy are also part of the laity, and…

— Franklin Littell