Quotes About Clergy

the Christian god has nothing better to do than to make rules for us. He makes rules, more rules, prohibitions and commandments, and he needs hundreds of black-robed priests and monks to make sure we obey those laws.

I could tell you tales of priestly behavior that would make you shudder.

expressed itself not only in politics, but also in art, romance, chivalry, and war. It expressed itself very little in the intellectual world, because education was almost wholly confined to the clergy. The explicit philosophy of the Middle Ages is not an accurate mirror of the times, but only of what was thought by one party. Among ecclesiastics, however--especially among the Franciscan friars --a certain

According to some estimates, by the early 1930s around a fifth of all Protestant clergy held Nazi sympathies while one in four was a party member. Many showed no hesitation in "worshipping" Hitler in their sermons and prayers. Indeed, a number of German Christians were so fanatically pro-Nazi that they called for Hitler's Mein Kampf to replace the Bible, since it was now "the people's most sacred text; their greatest, purest and truest moral code.

Evangelism is not a calling reserved exclusively for the clergy. I believe one of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.

Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests.

Two studies from the year 2000, however, indicate that Catholics give lower ratings to their clergy's ministerial activities across the board than do Protestants.

In addition to replacing many jobs, automation will also transform other jobs. Professions involving high touch, personal relationships - such as clergy, dentists, and financial advisors, for instance - face the least risk of automation but will nevertheless be profoundly transformed.

In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn't join the army. So vicious was this war propaganda that even God was brought into it. With few exceptions our clergymen joined in the clamor to kill, kill, kill. To kill the Germans. God is on our side . . . it is His will that the Germans be killed. And

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

If you need help, look to clergy who do not spout their own beliefs but direct you in sincerity by using the Bible.

The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's value rather than what it produced. This meant that, while parishioners could suffer through a terrible year, clergy would always have a comfortable one.

It is, after all, many centuries since clergymen distinguished themselves on the field of war, and lawyers never have.

Russ told Harlene to patch Mark through to Clare's if and when he turned up anything. "I'd love to know how you managed to work Reverend Fergusson into this one," Harlene said. "Reverend Fergusson manages to work herself into these things all on her own," he said. "She doesn't need any pushing from me.

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

You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.

el clero continuó gobernando las mentalidades y dirigiendo exitosamente a la nación a la ruina y al atraso.

The pulpit elevates the clergy to a position of prominence. True to its meaning, it puts the preacher at center "stage"—separating and placing him high above God's people.

Today, youth pastors are part of the professional clergy. Their position is built on the contemporary church's misguided choice to honor a division that was born in secular culture less than a century ago—namely, the division between teenager and everyone else.

THE Church admitted that it had brought upon itself the dangers which threatened it—that the alarming progress of heresy was caused and fostered by clerical negligence and corruption. In his opening address to the great Lateran Council, Innocent III. had no scruple in declaring to the assembled fathers: "The corruption of the people has its chief source in the clergy. From

Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that different places are separated by behaviours which are culturally driven.

UUs can call anyone they want as a minister, ordained or not, UU or not; but clergy from outside the association doesn't get institutional support.) Eager to be official and serve an established (and more remunerative) church, Bert was getting his master of divinity degree. We five women thought him conceited and liked to torture-tease him, calling him BS and making endless stupid jokes about his name: Would you like to Share?

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.