Clergymen Quotations

My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

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

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.

Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

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.

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.

It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.

Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish.

The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new morality' is all right. They say we're living in a new generation; let's be relevant, let's change God's law. Let's say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication's all right under certain circumstances. If it's 'meaningful.'

That God of the clergymen, He is for me as dead as a doornail. But am I an atheist for all that? The clergymen consider me as such- be it so; but I love, and how could I feel love if I did not live, and if others did not live, and then, if we live, t

The next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergyman's rate.

In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.