Clergymen Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clergymen Enough Good enough Heaven Men Not good enough
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches. — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ. — John Dyer Copy Share Image
“A man can have no greater honour than to be accepted by God as an able Minister of the gospel” — Obameso Sunkanmi Copy Share Image
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying.… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion -- whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on once a… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I always say to young fellows who consult me about the ministry, "Don't be a minister if you can help it," because if the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked,… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, — all except… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
One person I do feel a little sorry for, though, is the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most important clergyman in Britain and he's only… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
