Bishops Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bishops Contradicting Should Thinking
I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop. — James Thomson Copy Share Image
The bishop is a lot like me...just when you think you have me, I'm already behind you. — Priest Holmes Copy Share Image
My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image. — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost. — Yuri Razuvaev Copy Share Image
Let's be clear, I'm one of the thicker bishops in the Church of England. — Justin Welby Copy Share Image
The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
“The bishop was aghast. "You would threaten me?" Christian didn't hesitate with his answer."For her life, aye." "You would jeopardize your soul for her?… — Kinley MacGregor Copy Share Image
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service." — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration. — Boyd K. Packer 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
The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My last two characters have been Denethor and Walter Bishop. Both will be hard acts to follow. That sits in the hands of my… — John Noble Copy Share Image
The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life. The primary reason the old idea of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost. — Yuri Razuvaev Copy Share Image
Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted with the… — Malachi Martin Copy Share Image
Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Our bishops storehouses are not intended to stock enough commodities to care for all the members of the Church. Storehouses are only established to… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
