A clergyman is a man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.
Clergy Quotes
I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.
Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In the strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative. The Constitution of the U. S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. The law appointing Chaplains […]
There is no opinion so absurd that a preacher would not express it.
The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: he gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.
Some clergymen are so heavenly-minded that they are of no earthly use.
Clergyman, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his earthly ones.
Parsons are very like men, and neither the better nor the worse for wearing a black gown.
Nowadays we have scarcely a little parson that does not think it the duty of every man within his reach to sit under his petty ministration, and that whoever omits this offends God. To such I wish more humility.
