Arrogance Quote by Rowan Atkinson

Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and…

— Dallin H. Oaks

Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest -…

— Keith O'Brien

“Excessive wealth, enormous power, and luxury, Chrysostom charges, are destroying the integrity of the churches. Clerics, infected by the disease of “lust for authority,”…

— Elaine Pagels

I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.

— Hilaire Belloc

... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering.…

— Thomas Jefferson

The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation.

— Edward Gibbon

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

As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are.

— Harold B. Lee

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“For all clergymen whom I had yet met, regarded mankind and their interests solely from the clerical point of view, seeming far more desirous…

— George MacDonald

“The desire we so often hear expressed today for “episcopal figures,” “priestly men,” “authoritative personalities” springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick need for…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

— Robert Genn