Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.
Clergy Quotes
Most of the clergy are, or seem to be, utterly incapable of discussing anything in a fair and catholic spirit. They appeal, not to reason, but to prejudice; not to facts, but to passages of Scripture. They can conceive of no goodness, of no spiritual exaltation beyond the horizon of their creed.
That diabolical, hell-conceived principle of persecution rages among some; and to their eternal infamy, the clergy can furnish their quota of impas for such business.
A clergyman is a man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.
I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.
Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In the strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative. The Constitution of the U. S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. The law appointing Chaplains […]
There is no opinion so absurd that a preacher would not express it.
Clergyman, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his earthly ones.
Parsons are very like men, and neither the better nor the worse for wearing a black gown.
Nowadays we have scarcely a little parson that does not think it the duty of every man within his reach to sit under his petty ministration, and that whoever omits this offends God. To such I wish more humility.
