Clergy Quotes
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The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.
George Washington
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I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.
William P. Leahy
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Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.
Michel Onfray
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The old priest Peter Gilligan
Was weary night and day;
For half his flock were in their beds,
Or under green sods lay.
William Butler Yeats
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Hopeless, filthy, degraded, superstitious with the craven superstition which made them the easy prey of their unscrupulous clergy and left them wholly sensual and stupid; as animals, without the animals' instinctive joy of life and fearlessness of the morrow ; with no ambitions for themselves or the children who turned to curse them for having brought them into such a world; with no time to dream or love, no time for the tenderness which makes life, life indeed — they toiled for a few cruel years because they feared to die, and died because they feared to live. Such were the people Turgot was sent to redeem.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
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Pope Francis has aimed a blow at what the whole hierarchical system is built on: a graded system with the higher clergy in the skyboxes, the devoted religious in festival seating, as they say of the crowds at rock concerts, and, on the bottom, the laity in standing room only.
Eugene Kennedy
