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Clergy Quotes

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

"Table Talk" by Martin Luther, (p. 58), 1569.

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

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.13

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

Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.212

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

"Timeless wisdom of Mr. Dooley" by Mark Shields, www.cnn.com. March 1, 2004.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

Martin Luther, Johann Aurifaber, Anton Lauterbach, Henry Bell (1832). “Luther's Table Talk: Or, Some Choice Fragments from the Familiar Discourse of that Godly, Learned Man, and Famous Champion of God's Truth, Martin Luther”, p.232

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, Robert ARMITAGE (1850). “Doctor Johnson: his religious life and his death. By the author of “Dr. Hookwell,” etc. [Robert Armitage].”, p.109

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

Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 22, 2008.

The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.479, Library of Alexandria

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

"John Hurt: the naked actor". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2007.

The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].

Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.427

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

St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.199, Jazzybee Verlag

I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.257, Library of Alexandria

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

Michel Onfray, Jeremy Leggatt (2007). “Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam”, p.215, Arcade Publishing

It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.

"Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries".

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1783). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With the Life of the Author. In Twelve Volumes. A New Edition. To which is Now First Added, The Fathers; Or, The Good-natured Man”, p.113