Clergy Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Clergy.
Top Quotes
“If you would lift me, you must be on higher ground.”
“As the French say, there are three sexes – men, women, and clergymen.”
“Your great employment is to bring the individual souls of men to Christ.”
“clergy”
“ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.”
“A man who is good enough to go to heaven, is good enough to be a clergyman.”
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“It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.”
“Non est jam dicere, "Ut populus, sic sacerdos"; quia nec si populus, ut sacerdos.”
“I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.”
“A priest is a man who is called Father by everyone except his own children, who are obliged to call him Uncle.”
“CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.”
“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.”
“The clergy, they come in, And say it is a sin, That we should now begin Our freedom for to win. ”
“Though all good men be called God's servants in their general vocation, yet they cannot be called the minister of God but to a more special use.”
“I find on inquiring among successful pastors, successful in the sense of winning men to Christ in profession, that they depend largely on personal contact.”
“There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.”
“It is worth noting that Protestantism suppresses the clergy, and though it claims to uphold the authority of the Bible, it in fact ruins it by 'free inquiry'.”
“Our high mission, our noble calling, is to build up souls, to perfect the Christian life, and to make manhood acceptable to God, and radiant in the sight of all men.”
“Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me. When I need preachers I buy 'em cheap.”