Clergy Quotes

Again and yet again I admonish you; do not look to your military experience for a standard of clerical obligation. Under Christ’s banner seek for no worldly gain, lest having more than when you first became a clergyman, you hear men say, to your shame, “Their portion shall not profit them.” Welcome poor men and […]

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

Malevolence to the clergy is seldom at a great distance from irreverence of religion.

To all things clergic – I am allergic.

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

Our clerics neither evangelize like the apostles, nor go to war like the secular lords, nor toil like laborers.

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

Christ during His life upon earth was of all men the poorest, casting from Him all worldly authority. I deduce from these premises – that the Pope should surrender all temporal authority to the civil power and advise his clergy to do the same.

How can a preacher talk with a straight face about political graft? He is, himself, profiting by one of the most notorious political grafts in this country.

It is the half-Christian clergy of every denomination that are the main cause of the so-called failure of the church of Christ.