#clergy

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clergy #everywhere #found #i #i believe

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

— William P. Leahy

#clergy #different #different way #faith #i

You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well. ↗

— William P. Leahy

#boston #catholics #church #clergy #done

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom. ↗

— George MacDonald

#better man #clergyman #gate #kingdom #man

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.' ↗

— George McGovern

#clergyman #father #hate #love #said

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. ↗

— Herman Melville

#church #clergyman #get #go #heavens

You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#bands #blue #clergy #coats #down

A bellyful is a bellyful. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#compassionate #ought #same #thing #virtuous

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? ↗

— Pat Robertson

#folly #fool #greater #history #human