Clergy Quotes - Page 2

• I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Religious, Men

  Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800

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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Believe, Church

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.532, Wordsworth Editions

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• If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Religious, Fall, Hands

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• I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, Faith Religion

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• An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

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• A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Science, Ideas

  "Contact". Book by Carl Sagan. Chapter 14, p. 244, 1985.

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• Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Wall, Rights

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• The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

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• 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.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Running, Boys, Blue

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand

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• So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.

  Charles Hodge

  People, Matter, Constitution

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

  John Ruskin

  Prayer, Mind, Atheism

  John Ruskin (1879). “Letters to the Clergy on the Lord's Prayer and the Church”, p.29, Library of Alexandria

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• The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the danger of which to their own profession they, by a certain instinct, seem always to have perceived.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Country, Enemy, Atheism

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1872). “The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle”, p.363

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Book, Found

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.257, Library of Alexandria

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Positive Atheism, Undesirable

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.479, Library of Alexandria

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• The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Religion, Church

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• Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Religious, Mean, Heart

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.101, Delphi Classics

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

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Parent, Path, Belief

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• The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

  Martin Luther

  Hindrance

  "Table Talk" by Martin Luther, (p. 58), 1569.

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• In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Miracle, Sides, Logic

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Church, Waste, Wasting Time

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Schemes, Opposition

  Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, September 23, 1800.

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• Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Believe, Men

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• the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.

  George Eliot

  Church, Watches, Band

  George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.42, 谷月社

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• The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.

  Christian Smith

  Spiritual, Teacher, Children

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• The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror: to bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

  Nostradamus

  Kings, Good Luck, Tired

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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