Quote by William Nix

“I regularly tell our seminary students that if I happen to visit the church in which one of them serves, I will not ask…

— Jerram Barrs

“Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on…

— George Eliot

Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that…

— Anonymous

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

— Anonymous

“People who ask a lot of questions often find themselves at odds with other people, and even institutions and governments. Sometimes questioning types don't…

— Jim Palmer

Someone who's asking questions of the clergy, that he doesn't have the answers to, I think that's a universal predicament.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

“He taught consistently, as we have seen, that the Spirit is given to believers; so how could he have asked his questions unless something…

— John R.W. Stott

The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for…

— Pope John Paul II

“Two of my closest seminary friends broke all contact with me after I told them I was leaving priesthood and coming out of the…

— Charles Benedict

“The great educational value of the war against Christendom lies in the absolute truthlessness of the priest. Such purity is rare enough. The 'man…

— Nick Land

“Academics being no less nomadic than Congregational preachers, he took work where he could find it. He became a Professor of Greek and Latin…

— Neal Stephenson

“Though I wholeheartedly supported celibacy at the start of my seminary career, my opinion changed as I made my way toward and through priesthood.”

— Charles Benedict