Clergy Quotes

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

Good, Idea, Toward

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

Religion, Nothing, Sense

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Rudyard Kipling

Mother, Worth, Ounce

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

Nation, Rest, Found

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Jonathan Swift

Religion, Nothing, Country

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

American, Fall, Hands

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.
Charles Hodge

Faith, Power, Church

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

Same, Making, Rules

Two studies from the year 2000, however, indicate that Catholics give lower ratings to their clergy's ministerial activities across the board than do Protestants.
Andrew Greeley

Give, Two, Year

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

Faith, Different, Abuse

You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.
Benjamin Jowett

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

God, Child, Dear

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

Bad, Movie, Played

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

Great, Long, Down

You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well.
William P. Leahy

Hard, Done, Here

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.
Roland Allen

Life, Men, Experience

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