Assertion Quote by John Quincy Adams

“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

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

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals

— Jimmy Swaggart

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.

— Jimmy Swaggart

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

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

Pastors are sent to utter the deep things of God for the conviction of sin, and for edification and comfort.

— T. B. Joshua

Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the…

— Alan Hirsch

“If we’re going to reach the unchurched, underchurched, dechurched, and postchurched with the gospel in a culture that’s trending post-Christian, we must rethink our…

— Andy Stanley

“I tell my congregation at times, “You don’t have to feel conviction for every sermon. Some of you are actually obedient and faithful in…

— Kevin DeYoung

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

— Henry Fielding

“All pulpits must passionately declare Christ to be the eternal Son of the living God, the only Savior of sinners. All preaching must boldly…

— Steven J. Lawson