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The defects of a preacher are soon spied.
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.
Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.
Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.
As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.
In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.
The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.
The next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergyman's rate.
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.
I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.
I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish.
If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.
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.
A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.
In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
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.
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.
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.
Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen.
It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.
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.
In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.'
From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama.
The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new morality' is all right. They say we're living in a new generation; let's be relevant, let's change God's law. Let's say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication's all right under certain circumstances. If it's 'meaningful.'