Clergymen Quotes

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

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 woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.

Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.

In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the American character.

For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.

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

It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.

Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

The next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergyman's rate.

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish.

Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.