Clergymen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

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

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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
-- George Carlin

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

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My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.
-- John Hurt

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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

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Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.
Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and hurt and anger often have to come up in order to be released. On the other side we're a better person, capable of a happier life...who we are when we're no longer burdened by the buried feelings that weighed us down, or the self - defeating patterns that the pain produced.
I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.
We are powerful because we have survived
It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.
I mean the NHL never called me and wanted me to show up at the draft.
So with Easter. It was fun, as a child, to bound down the stairs to find seasonal sweet-treats under each plate, but again, with the passing of time, and the shadow of death over our broken family circle, I've seen Easter as highest necessity. If hope is to flourish, it had better be true.
Whether we like it or not, a breakdown in home-life will eventually lead to a breakdown everywhere. This is, surely, the most menacing and dangerous aspect of the state of society at this present time. Once the family idea, the family unit, the family life is broken up - once that goes, soon you will have no other allegiance.
Was the Buddha married? His wife would say, "Are you just going to sit around like that all day?"
History has a way of coming back to you. In the case of Janis Joplin appearing at the festival in 1968, her performance affected the life of a Bostonian who is now a member of the Newport Festivals Foundation Board of Directors. Â Ward Mooney was so affected and emotionally involved in Janisâ€™ performance at Newport, that when he heard the festival was going nonprofit, he knew wanted to become a part.Â Janis was beautiful, gracious and respectful, and the power of her Newport performance continues to live on.