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Quotes About Vicars

Vicars, he often thought, are essentially God's lawyers on the earth. Interpreters of the law, the finders of nuance, sifters through rationalizations to get at the truth or the need of the moment. Guessers, in other words.
~ Julie Anne Long
Organised religion he hated; the church in all its guises for the way it took money from the poor and superstitious to sustain priests, ministers and vicars,
~ David Donachie
No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
~ Alan Bennett
Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.
~ Tom Hollander
Do what Jesus says,... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing.
~ St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Let the vicars retire. Men do not need the Church In the place where they work, but where they spend their Sundays.
~ T.S. Eliot
I would slap a tax on plastic to encourage people to use more biodegradable things. I would also like teachers, vicars and other community workers to be paid as much as lawyers.
~ Alexander Armstrong
Mrs. Fox-Cotton said that was no book for little girls, I told him. It's no book for little vicars, he said, chuckling.
~ Dodie Smith
How much more properly did the apostles call themselves servants of the present Christ and not vicars of an absent Christ.
~ Martin Luther