Clergy Quotes

• Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.

  

  Emily Murphy
  • Game
  • Chance
  • Games

• The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Faith
  • Hindrance
  • Clergy

• I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

  

  William P. Leahy
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

  

  Michel Onfray
  • Causes
  • Secular
  • Caricatures

• That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church

  

  Alan Green
  • Church
  • Conservative
  • Disappointing

• 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
  • Night
  • Bed
  • Flocks

• The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.

  

  George Washington
  • America
  • Should
  • Foundation

• An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Mother
  • Clergy
  • Pound

• 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
  • Children
  • Animals
  • Hopeless

• Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Fear
  • Progress
  • Opponents

• 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
  • Crowds
  • Clergy
  • Hierarchical

• Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Change
  • Enemies
  • Clergy

• I ask the clergy why don't I see myself represented in leadership? And I'm told, and this happens quite a bit, "We don't think about race when we hire. We just hire the best person for the job."

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Job
  • Leadership
  • Clergy

• 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.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Realize
  • Complicated
  • Terms