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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

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 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, Say, Sword, Right

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, Touch

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, Weak, Wrong, Right, Own, Fortitude

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, Toward

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, Experience, Good, People, Values

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, Nation, Will

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, Choices, Accountability, Key

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, Opinions, Speech

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

Mother, Mom, Worth, Pound, Ounce

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

God, People, Government, Acting, Want

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, Child, Parents, I Am, Words

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, Nation, Some

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, Unity, People, Government, Care

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy. Michel Onfray

Look, Worse, Cause, Like, Many, Secular

The decision to allow clergy to perform same-sex marriages at the discretion of the congregation poses challenges for seminaries training new pastors who come from denominations fundamentally opposed on biblical grounds to same-sex marriage. Anthea Butler

Marriage, Decision, Training, Challenges

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, Working, Go, More

For both Protestants and Catholics, and whether or not absolute continence is demanded of the clergy, celibacy remains a blessed spiritual state. Meir Soloveichik

Spiritual, Blessed, Celibacy, Catholics

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

Religion, Common Sense, Nothing, Reason

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, Experience, Men, People, Church

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, Practice, People, Church

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

Fall, People, American, Hands, Will

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, White, House, Down, Tuesday, Us

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

Know, You, Bad, Being, Catholic, Movie

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

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