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Clergymen Quotes

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
Voltaire

Authors on Clergymen Quotes: George Carlin Samuel Johnson St. Jerome Jean Baptiste Massillon Elizabeth Aston Kate Greenaway Martin Luther Carl Jung Harper Lee Samuel Richardson Hosea Ballou Agatha Christie Voltaire Charles Babbage James Gibbons Billy Graham Henry David Thoreau Pat Robertson Robert Southey William Nelson
2.
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
George Carlin

3.
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
St. Jerome

4.
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson

5.
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
Pat Robertson

6.
I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.
Samuel Johnson

7.
The defects of a preacher are soon spied.
Martin Luther

8.
I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Samuel Johnson

9.
A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.
Kate Greenaway

10.
In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.
George Carlin

11.
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
St. Jerome

12.
Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.
Elizabeth Aston

13.
It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.
Carl Jung

14.
A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.
James Gibbons

15.
Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish.
Billy Graham

16.
Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.
Jean Baptiste Massillon

17.
Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.
William Nelson

18.
The next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergyman's rate.
George Carlin

19.
Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.
Hosea Ballou

20.
The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.
Robert Southey

21.
Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.
Agatha Christie

22.
The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen.
Charles Babbage

23.
A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.
Henry David Thoreau

24.
Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.
Harper Lee