Clergy Quote by Henry Fielding Download Open image “Clergy are men as well as other folks.” — Henry Fielding ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clergy Folks Men Wells
[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 clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department. — John Hurt 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
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials. — Pope Francis 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
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
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
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
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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
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 Copy Share Image
“Though Jones had formerly believed himself in the very prime of youth and vigor, his first encounter with Lady Bellaston both vexed and puzzled… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often… — Henry Fielding 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
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