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

Mother, Mom, Pound

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

Childhood, Mind, Been

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

Idea, Celibate, Suppress

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

Hands, Destroyed, Ever

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

Own, Disregard, Another

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

Say, Must, Spite

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

Church, Salvation, Other

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

Country, Some, Persecution

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, Over, Desires

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

Bad, Movie, Bad Movie

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

Government, Like, Pastors

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, Constitutional

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

Through, Broadcast, Needed

Moral training in Ireland is severe and lasts until marriage. Even in childhood, we are taught by the pious clergy to battle against bad thoughts so that we may preserve our holy purity. Austin Clarke

Childhood, Thoughts, Lasts

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, Will, Found

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, Need, Using

The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department. John Hurt

Business, Different, Same

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

Different Places, About

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

Cure, Either, Physicians

The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary. Abdolkarim Soroush

Living, Will, Through

I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions chanting and swearing, but it is their constitutional right. Pete Hoekstra

Students, Swearing, Chanting

Issues like immigration, police brutality, and other onerous laws put in place by local and state governments are prime avenues for active clergy to work with their parishioners on the issues that affect their daily lives. Anthea Butler

Affect, Other, Governments

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

New, Allow, Opposed

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

Bible, Some, Private

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

Other, Arrested, Obama

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

Like, Cause, Secular

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