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  • The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

  • Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”
  • The history of the world for the past several centuries and current events at home and abroad confirm the existence of such a conspiracy (to destroy Christianity and obtain global power). The world-wide net-work of diabolical conspirators implements this plot against the Christian faith while Christians appear to be sound asleep. The Christian clergy appear to be more ignorant or more indifferent about this conspiracy than other Christians ... It seems so sad.

    Christian   Home   Past  
  • Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real service as ministers in the South. Less theology and more of human brotherhood, less declamation and more common sense and love for truth, must be the qualifications of the new ministry that shall yet save the race from the evils of false teaching.

  • The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

    Military   Causes   Empty  
  • I am Presbyterian and Protestant. I've had great relationships and developed even greater relationships with ministers. We have tremendous support from the clergy.

    Source: townhall.com
  • Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty!

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

    Religious   Fall   Hands  
  • It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.

  • I was the biggest George Harrison fanatic in the world. He was raised Catholic; my parents are both ex-clergy, so I was raised Catholic, and I admired how he used his faith.

    Parent   Catholic   World  
    Source: chuckdaly.wordpress.com
  • The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.

    Gun   Important   Bullets  
    Nadeem Aslam (2008). “The Wasted Vigil”, p.289, Faber & Faber
  • 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.

  • I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy their fortifications. And the importance of scientific method in modern practical life--always growing and increasing--is the guarantee for the gradual emancipation of the ignorant upper and lower classes, the former of whom especially are the strength of the priests.

    Running   Class   White  
    Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”
  • A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

    Men   May   Waste  
  • The minister asks, 'What right have you to hope? It is sacrilegious to you.' But, whether the clergy like it or not, I shall always express my real opinion, and shall always be glad to say to those who mourn: 'There is in death, as I believe, nothing worse than sleep. Hope for as much better as you can.'

    Death   Real   Believe  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “Interviews”
  • And sometimes the clergy are blindsided by that. Other times they realize that ahead of time and say they're not going to use those terms. So it gets complicated for sure.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.

    Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 22, 2008.
  • The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.

    Adam Ferguson, David Hume, David R. Raynor (1982). “Sister Peg: A Pamphlet Hitherto Unknown by David Hume”, p.19, Cambridge University Press
  • The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.

  • According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.

    Christian   Men   Belief  
  • But the most dangerous Hypocrite in a Common-Wealth, is one who leaves the Gospel for the sake of the Law: A Man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole Country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law: And here the Clergy are in great Danger of being deceiv'd, and the People of being deceiv'd by the Clergy, until the Monster arrives to such Power and Wealth, that he is out of the reach of both, and can oppress the People without their own blind Assistance.

    Country   Hypocrite   Men  
    Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Louis Ketcham (2003). “The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin”, p.5, Hackett Publishing
  • You mean 'Injustice Sunday II', ... is using religion to alienate people rather than to bring people together. It has more to do with politics than with theology. I'm disappointed that clergy would be leading such a divisive call.

    Mean   Sunday   People  
  • It was in this year, 1828, that the standard of "the Christian Party in Politics" was openly unfurled... This was an evident attempt, through the influence of the clergy over the female mind - until this hour lamentably neglected in the United States - to effect a union of Church and State.

    Christian   Party   Years  
  • The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction.

    Religious   Mean   People  
  • The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods lay.

    Night   Bed   Half  
    William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.137, Penguin
  • Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and inimical to the progress of humanity.

    James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.59, Pluto Press
  • A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

  • If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

  • When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

    Cities   Letters   Clergy  
    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.131, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Body have to physically strong and sturdy. Spiritually balanced fi clean and purge me. Mentally advanced fi always urge me. Read a couple books and challenge the clergy. Read a couple psalms up in the morning early.

    Strong   Morning   Couple  
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