Clergy Quote by Irving Stone

“He seems to see good in every one. No one would take him for a clergyman.”

— E.M. Forster

“But as we did without clergy, let us do without soldiers.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Martin Luther

“Could I survive in the world as an ex-priest that no one wanted anything to do with?”

— Charles Benedict

“There is practically nothing that men do not prefer to God. A tiresome detail of business, an occupation utterly pernicious to health, the employment…

— François Fénelon

“with faith,discipline and selfless devotion to the duty,there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.”

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“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

“Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was the business only of the clergy to care for souls.”

— George MacDonald

“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“But any religion would be found lacking if judged solely by its human servants.”

— Joan Wolf

“Like a mighty army moves the Church of God.” But this is no way for a gentle-man.”

— Alan Wilson Watts

“I think, for the writer, rather as for the priest, there isn't such a thing as success.”

— Graham Greene