Able Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

— Samuel Richardson

CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.

— Ambrose Bierce

My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward…

— Frances McDormand

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

— Voltaire

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

My mother was a minister, so I grew up in a church. My grandfather was a minister; there are a bunch of ministers in…

— Gregory Porter

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

— St. Jerome

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

— Henry Fielding

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

— Samuel Johnson

My father was a minister, and my mother was a music teacher.

— Walter F. Mondale

My father was a pastor, my mother was the quintessential pastor's wife.

— Heather Headley