Clergy Quotes

What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost always.

A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.

And sometimes the clergy are blindsided by that. Other times they realize that ahead of time and say they're not going to use those terms. So it gets complicated for sure.

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

I ask the clergy why don't I see myself represented in leadership? And I'm told, and this happens quite a bit, "We don't think about race when we hire. We just hire the best person for the job."

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.

The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.

Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

Have we arrived at our own faith and our own path or simply internalized the beliefs of parents, clergy, spouse, or friends?

According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.

I am Presbyterian and Protestant. I've had great relationships and developed even greater relationships with ministers. We have tremendous support from the clergy.

Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.

Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.

the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

They like to use those fancy words. They don't like to say “raped, '” he said. “They say “misdeed, ' “inappropriate touching, ' “mistake.' That's insulting. I'm not a mistake.

If you are a pastor there is no way you can lose faith without losing face, you are considered the devil incarnate by your former congregation

That's the trouble with you preachers, " he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything, " and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

Anytime you feel like you don't have any work to do, just look around. Look for what God had started doing and ask for his permission to assist him in doing it.

It’s common knowledge that the "church" is nothing more than an invention of the priesthood designed to swindle the ordinary people of the empire out of just about everything they own.

His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie, ' he said. 'You should have been one of the aforementioned clergy. Is this what marriage does to you? One shudders at the very idea.