#clergy

A missionary church cannot rely on the professional ministry for the primary work of mission. The role of the laity is critical because it is the lay members of the church who have the greatest contact with those who are outside of the normal structures of church life. In such a situation the task of clergy is not so much to engage in mission themselves, as to support the laity in their mission. ↗

— Martin Robinson

#clergy #laity #leadership #missionary #faith

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. ↗

— Voltaire

#common #common sense #contrary #more #nothing

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#certainly #clergyman #fellow #fellow men #heart

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied. ↗

— Charles Hodge

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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

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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

#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

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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

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