Clergymen Quotes - Page 3

• What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!

  John Flavel

  Baby, Religious, Prayer

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.33, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

  Voltaire

  Religion, Firsts, Fool

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

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• True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute, it serves those that harm it, it binds up that which is wounded, it has become all things to all creatures.

  Menno Simons

  Faith, Religious, Lying

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• When we were little, we kept close to our mother in a dark alley or if dogs barked at us. Now, when we feel temptations of the flesh, we should run to the side of our Mother in Heaven, by realizing how she is to us, and by means of aspirations. She will defend us and lead us to the light.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Christian, Mother, Running

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• There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

  Richard Rohr

  Being Yourself, Who I Am, Enough

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• What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.

  Pope John Paul II

  Love, Life, Religious

  Pope John Paul II (1979). “Pilgrim of Peace: The Homilies and Addresses of His Holiness Pope John Paul II on the Occasion of His Visit to the United States of America”

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• Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

  John Wesley

  Giving, Heaven, Desire

  John Wesley (1960). “The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley ...”

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• Europeans still read rather than watching TV or listening to their clergyman tell them how to vote. The European magazines are far superior to American magazines in content and readership, but TV is taking a bite out of circulation now even in Europe.

  Peter Menzel

  Europe, Listening, Watching Tv

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

  George Carlin

  Next, Rate, Asks

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• If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Cowboy

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• The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Order, Long, Intellectual

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• The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches.

  Chapman Cohen

  Christian, Believe, Today

  Chapman Cohen (1900). “Opinions, Random Reflections, and Wayside Sayings”

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• I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have a personal interest in their survival ... all thought the main reason for the quiet sway of religion over their country was the complete separation of church and state. I have no hesitation in stating that throughout my stay in America I met nobody, lay or cleric, who did not agree about that.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, America, Faithful

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

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  Medicine, Doe, Quacks

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• I was brought up in a clergyman's household so I am a first-class liar.

  Sybil Thorndike

  Liars, Class, Firsts

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• In man or woman, but far most in man,
  And most of all in man that ministers,
  And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe
  All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn:
  Object of my implacable disgust.

  William Cowper

  Men, Perfect, Soul

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.140

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

  Robert Southey

  Fields, Parades, Pulpit

  Robert Southey (1850). “The Life & Correspondence of the Late Robert Southey: (VIII, 390 p.)”, p.75

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• 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.

  Craig Ferguson

  Night, Accountability, Gone

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• My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Father, Book, Library

  Source: www.foundingfatherquotes.com

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• The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen.

  Alan Watts

  Children, Home, Long

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• It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Children, Father, Son

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1905). “The Story of a Literary Career”

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• 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.

  Kate Greenaway

  Wife, Religion, Said

  Kate Greenaway (1910). “Kate Greenaway: Sixteen Examples in Colour of the Artist's Work”

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

  St. Jerome

  Men, Plague

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• Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd,
  And still where many a garden flower grows wild,
  There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,
  The village preacher's modest mansion rose.
  A man he was to all the country dear,
  And passing rich with forty pounds a year;
  Remote from town's he ran his godly race,
  Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place;
  Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power,
  By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour;
  Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize.
  More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Fashion, Flower

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres”, p.69

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

  James Gibbons

  Ridiculous, Wells, Rulers

  James Gibbons (2014). “The Faith of Our Fathers”, p.145, The Floating Press

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