Body Quote by Thomas Huxley

“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

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

— Henry Fielding

The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the danger of…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

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

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

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

— Elizabeth Aston

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of…

— Hans Kung

“Myriads of professing Christians nowadays seem utterly unable to distinguish things that differ. Like people afflicted with colour-blindness, they are incapable of discerning what…

— J.C. Ryle

“Even in my profession how little the art of reading has been studied! how little a clear manner, and good delivery, have been attended…

— Jane Austen

We need some clergy with some backbone, who don't mind making uncomfortable at times those who are very comfortable, and challenging them at the…

— Tim McDonald

The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will…

— Abdolkarim Soroush