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Clergy are men as well as other folks.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.
Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty!
You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.
I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.
Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.
The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.
You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.
Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.
I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.
Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.
From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.
If you need help, look to clergy who do not spout their own beliefs but direct you in sincerity by using the Bible.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.
Someone who's asking questions of the clergy, that he doesn't have the answers to, I think that's a universal predicament.
The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.
When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.
I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions chanting and swearing, but it is their constitutional right.
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.
Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.
the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!
For both Protestants and Catholics, and whether or not absolute continence is demanded of the clergy, celibacy remains a blessed spiritual state.
I was raised in a Catholic family, spent twelve years in parochial schools, and had extremely fond memories of my interactions with Catholic clergy.
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?
People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.
Two studies from the year 2000, however, indicate that Catholics give lower ratings to their clergy's ministerial activities across the board than do Protestants.
You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well.
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.
Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among clergy and laity alike.
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.
You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.
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.
The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing board to hold all the various Orthodox bodies together.
So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.
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.
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.
I was born into the Church of England but in the most nominal way possible you can imagine, so it's Christmas and Easter. And then like a great many clergy in the Church of England I actually got nobbled by being a chorister.
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.