Bishops Quotes

• A golf ball is white, dimpled like a bishop's knees, and is the size of small mandarin oranges or those huge pills which vets blow down the throats of constipated cart-horses.

  

  Frank Muir
  • Golf
  • White
  • Ball

• There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.

  

  Rufus Choate
  • People
  • Church
  • Equal

• I’ve no idea what I shall do when I am grown! I don’t suppose there is much call for Knights or Bishops or Heroines in Omaha or even Chicago. And I’m sure other girls are much better at it than I.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Girls
  • Knights
  • Heroines

• The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Life
  • Different
  • Game

• For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?

  

  William Tyndale
  • Matter
  • Pope
  • Cardinals

• This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Authority
  • Razors
  • Downhill

• In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen, Larry Bishop and myself. We're bikers, and I play Billy Wings; I've got all sorts of wings, and you have to watch the movie to find out what the wings are about.

  

  Vinnie Jones
  • Play
  • Hell
  • Bikers

• Remember, presidents and bishops, that the callings of your associates are just as divinely inspired as is yours, and they are therefore entitled to inspiration in their specific responsibilities. Lean upon them. Learn from them. Love them. Listen to them.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Inspiration
  • Responsibilities
  • Presidents

• God is love, the bishops tell.

  

  T. H. White
  • God
  • Hell
  • Love Is

• I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God.

  

  Owen Wister
  • Men
  • Lawyer
  • Doctors

• Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Theologians
  • Bishops
  • Troubadour

• Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Hate
  • Ideas
  • Enemy

• I've had to remove all mirrors from my home. I just can't seem to look at myself without having to buff the bishop, you know?

  

  Zach Braff
  • Home
  • Mirrors
  • Bishops

• One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal labor government has regularly angered Church officials by making controversial ministerial appointments against the wishes of the clergy. . . . These and other actions have strained the church-state relationship almost to the breaking point. As a result, some of the bishops have advocated disestablishment.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Action
  • Wish
  • Church

• Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Good
  • Community
  • Class

• Titian and Rembrandt, Monet and Rodin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mark Twain and Henry James, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop, to name a few. Twain wrote 'Tom Sawyer' at 41 and bettered it with 'Huckleberry Finn' at 50; Wright completed Fallingwater at 72 and worked on the Guggenheim Museum until his death at 91.

  

  David Galenson
  • Museums
  • Frank
  • Huckleberry

• I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • World
  • Perspective
  • Challenges

• As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Tradition
  • Discover
  • Authoritarianism

• Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman commands because the latter are always presented as tests of their loyalty to the Pope and of their absolute acceptance of his teaching authority, or Magisterium.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Teaching
  • Loyalty
  • Pope

• The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Church
  • Catholic
  • Murder