Clergyman Quotes

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.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

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.

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

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

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

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

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

There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.