I was brought up in a clergyman’s household so I am a first-class liar.
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.
The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of a military spirit were buried in the cloister: a large portion of public and private wealth was consecrated to the specious demands of charity and devotion; and the soldiers’ pay was lavished on […]
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.
