Bishops Quotes - Page 5

• Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's license to receive it.

  Thomas Hardy

  Often Is, Giving, May

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.4103, Delphi Classics

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• Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can at least convert them to the boggiest of soft-left clichés, on the grounds that if Jesus were alive today he’d most likely be a gay Anglican bishop in a committed relationship driving around in an environmentally friendly car with an “Arms are for Hugging” sticker on the way to an interfaith dialogue with a Wiccan and a couple of Wahhabi imams.

  Mark Steyn

  Christian, Jesus, Couple

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• The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Brother, Sleep, Law

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• Bishop was all done with the witty converstaion. "Will you swear?" And Myrnin said, shockingly, "I will." And he proceeded to, a string of swearwords that made Claire blink. He ended with, "--frothy fool-born apple-john! Cheater of vandals and defiler of dead dogs!" and did another twirl and bow. He looked up with a red, red grin that was more like a leer. "Is that what you meant, my lord?

  Rachel Caine

  Dog, Witty, Cheater

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• Do not, brethren, put your trust in man though he be a bishop, an apostle, or a president. If you do, they will fail you at some time or place; they will do wrong or seem to, and your support be gone.

  George Q. Cannon

  Men, Support, President

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• One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal labor government has regularly angered Church officials by making controversial ministerial appointments against the wishes of the clergy. . . . These and other actions have strained the church-state relationship almost to the breaking point. As a result, some of the bishops have advocated disestablishment.

  Dan Barker

  Government, Point Break, Wish

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• Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Class, Community, Crime

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Clicking of Cuthbert: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.

  Peter Hollingworth

  Jobs, People, Training

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• Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.

  Henry Adams

  Law, Unbroken, Safe

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.222, Booklassic

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• Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?

  Charles Lamb

  Queens, Book, Reading

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• [To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Speaking Up, Married

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• And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.

  George Orwell

  Fun, Fall, Pie

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944”

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• Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Journey, Wings, Gentleman

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.314

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• The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often the worst kind, and have been since the secular authorities stopped enforcing the local bishop's decrees of anathema.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Math, Science, Arrogance

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• They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing, there is mixed up any thing lascivious or impure; as also all secular actions; vain and therefore profane conversations, all walking about, noise, and clamour, that so the house of God may be seen to be, and may be called, truly a house of prayer.

  Pope Pius IV

  Prayer, House, Singing

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• I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God.

  Owen Wister

  Men, Doctors, Territory

  Owen Wister (2012). “The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• I've had to remove all mirrors from my home. I just can't seem to look at myself without having to buff the bishop, you know?

  Zach Braff

  Home, Mirrors, Looks

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• I want to open myself. ... I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus. I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil. I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil. I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!

  Abigail Williams

  Sweet, Jesus, Book

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• While some are as loathe to trade a Bishop for a Knight as a Cadillac for a Chevrolet, others are prepared to do so without hesitation.

  Larry Evans

  Knights, Cadillacs, Chess

  Larry Evans (1974). “How to Open a Chess Game”

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• Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mother, Teacher, Humility

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• The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Civilization, Two

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• Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.

  Jacob Aagaard

  Queens, Archer, Knights

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• The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Color, Games, Two

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• All I can say is Bishop Jakes would not currently accept the designation of Prosperity Preacher or Word of Faith Preacher as an accurate description of what he believes currently. Now his ministry will have to bear that out. I'm not here to defend him or stick up for his various errors. And I don't want to minimize error that is significant. All I'm saying is that he, as of two weeks ago, would not accept those terms, in private conversation, as accurate descriptors of what he believes.

  James MacDonald

  Believe, Errors, Two

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• It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Dad, Spring, Kids

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (2000). “Respect: An Exploration”, p.4, Basic Books

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