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There is a particular set of values commonly associated with being professional. Experience, expertise, trustworthiness, wisdom, and good judgement are all attributes aspired to by senior professional people, be they doctors, engineers, lawyers, civil servants, or the clergy. Mark Walport

Wisdom, Good, Experience, People, Values

The king, you say, desires to do what is right. My clergy are banished, my possessions are taken from me, the sword hangs over my neck. Do you call this right? Thomas Becket

King, Me, You, Sword, Possessions, Say

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

Rest, Believe, I Believe, Will, Nation

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind. Nikola Tesla

Childhood, Mind, Dark, Cloud, Like, Been

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials. Pope Francis

God, People, Government, Acting, Want

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

Good, Because, Good Idea, Idea, Any

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. Baron d'Holbach

Religion, Common Sense, Nothing, More

One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy. Saint Ambrose

Mind, Wrong, Weak, Own, Right, Check

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

Mother, Mom, Worth, Ounce, Pound

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

God, Child, Believe, You, Dear, Must

Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them. L. Lionel Kendrick

Today, Death, Reading, Bible, Possible

The Church of Christ is constituted in two orders, the clergy and the people, the one having the care of the Church that all may be ruled for the salvation of souls; the other contains kings, princes, and nobles who have to carry on secular government that all things may lead to the peace and unity of the Church. Thomas Becket

Peace, People, Government, Unity, Care

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, Degree, Them

In addition to replacing many jobs, automation will also transform other jobs. Professions involving high touch, personal relationships - such as clergy, dentists, and financial advisors, for instance - face the least risk of automation but will nevertheless be profoundly transformed. Clara Shih

Face, Financial, Automation, Risk, Will

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

People, Hands, American, Fall, Will

Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that different places are separated by behaviours which are culturally driven. Julianne Moore

Army, You, Theme, Learn, Places, Kids

Broadcast radio was entering its own golden age during the Depression, with live programming on stations all through the day. Local stations needed singers, musicians, announcers, and whipcord personalities, along with Christian clergy to give prayers and pundits to speak on world affairs. Douglas Brinkley

Depression, Live, Age, Day, World, Speak

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

Faith, People, Think, Look, Way, Abuse

I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions lying and expressing hateful speech in the name of love, but again, it is their constitutional right. I'm not OK with their conduct, but in America we tolerate it, as obnoxious and spiteful as it may be. Pete Hoekstra

Love, America, Name, Speech, Opinions

Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among clergy and laity alike. David Augsburger

Practice, Accountability, Choices, Key

On Tuesday 26 July 2011, I was arrested in front of the White House along with a dozen other pro-immigrant advocates and clergy. We sat down on the sidewalk in front of the White House with a banner that read 'One Million Deported Under President Obama' and refused to move when the police ordered us to. Luis Gutierrez

Police, Down, House, July, White, Us

The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church. Rodney Stark

People, Church, Will, Go, Working, More

People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church. Warren Giles

War, People, Think, Church, Vietnam War

If you need help, look to clergy who do not spout their own beliefs but direct you in sincerity by using the Bible. Monica Johnson

Bible, Help, Look, You, Need, Sincerity

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

God, Believe, You, Say, Spite, Must

Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords. Bernie Siegel

Change, Parents, Words, I Am, Child

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