Clergy Quotes

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Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and inimical to the progress of humanity.

Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty!

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.

I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

I was the biggest George Harrison fanatic in the world. He was raised Catholic; my parents are both ex-clergy, so I was raised Catholic, and I admired how he used his faith.

You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.

Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.

Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.

You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.

The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

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

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business.

The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].

Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result.

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

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

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.

By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.

That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church

Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another.

Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.

The elite attack religious people and clergy with a vengeance.

Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people the churches will be shut up and a new order of things [will] begin.

Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents.