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Tag Name "Clergyman" (34)

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Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.
H. L. Mencken
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CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
Ambrose Bierce
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I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so.
Nigella Lawson
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It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
Patrick Henry
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The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson
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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
Voltaire
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No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.
Wallace D. Wattles
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.
William Nelson
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SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.
Ambrose Bierce
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When a minister or a clergyman takes seriously unfashionable Christian doctrines which condemn sex outside marriage, homosexuality, abortion, and feminism, and injects his views into the political debate, he is immediately denounced as a 'reactionary.'
Benjamin Hart
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The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches.
Chapman Cohen
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It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.
George Carlin
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Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
George MacDonald
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My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.
John Hurt
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A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.
Kate Greenaway
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The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, Where is the best place to go to? He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages--heaven for climate, and hell for society.
Mark Twain
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One person I do feel a little sorry for, though, is the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most important clergyman in Britain and he's only got two lousy palaces to live in. What sort of life is that for a man of God? I bet if Jesus came back, even he'd be embarrassed for him I bet he wouldn't be able to look him in the eye.
Pat Condell
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Europeans still read rather than watching TV or listening to their clergyman tell them how to vote. The European magazines are far superior to American magazines in content and readership, but TV is taking a bite out of circulation now even in Europe.
Peter Menzel
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The pulpit is a clergyman's parade the parish is his field of active service.
Robert Southey
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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
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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
Voltaire
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