Bishops Quotes

The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.

For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?

The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun.

I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that 'all that I am,' I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

First, how to sac my queen, then rook, then bishop, then knight, then pawns.

Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.

Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

In blitz, the Knight is stronger than the Bishop

[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.

To refer to the oft mooted question, "Which piece is stronger, the Bishop or the Knight?" it is clear that the value of the Bishop undergoes greater changes than that of the Knight.

The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.

The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.

There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.

The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.

The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.

Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be the one to relate to theologians to determine orthodoxy.

Emma took the revelation, on polygamy supposed she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it, and he had handed the revelation to Bishop Whitney, and he wrote it all off... She went to the fireplace and put it in, and put a candle under it and burnt it, and she thought that was the end of it, and she will be damned as sure as she is a living woman. Joseph used to say that he would have her hereafter, if he had to go to hell for her, and he will have to go to hell for her as sure as he ever gets her.

I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish.

JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.

What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.

Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting--it has been found wanting, and not tried.

The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.

The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the value of the Bishop becomes more evident to him, and of course there is, or should be, a corresponding decease in his estimation of the value of the Knight as compared to the bishop.

If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be; The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant-'We trust in thee!'

All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned.

The bishops eat from my hand.

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops

There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."

I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.

My brothers, the United States Bishops, have reminded us, all are called to be vigilant, precisely as good citizens, to preserve and defend that freedom from everything that would threaten or compromise it.

Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.

It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in addition, to the opening of a file for the rook.

And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.

The Lord did nothing either of himself or through his apostles without his Father, with whom he is united; so too, you should undertake nothing without the bishop and the presbyters priests.

When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

It is fascinating to see how much Pope Francis relies on the work of the bishops in the Synods.

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

Gandhi or Bishop Tutu or the Dalai Lama. I think they're really embodiments of what we aspire to and, by keeping them in our heads, we're reminding ourselves of who we could be. That's what we're hoping to climb up towards.