Clergymen Quotes - Page 2

• A man's best friends are his ten fingers.

  Robert Collyer

  Best Friend, Friendship, Men

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• What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Answers, World, Idiot

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.180, Knopf

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• And as for the Pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine.

  Thomas Cranmer

  Religious, Jesus, Enemy

  Thomas Cranmer (1833). “Remains”, p.140

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• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Family, God

  Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

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• Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and will save your soul, if-and mark well what I say-if you say the Holy Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Eye, Thinking

  Henry Van Dyke (2009). “Joy & Power: Three Messages with One Meaning”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Bible, God, Faith

  Eugene H. Peterson (2009). “Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best”, p.16, InterVarsity Press

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• Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  John Flavel (1836). “The Fountain of Life Opened; Or, A Display of Christ in His Essential and Mediatorial Glory. 1671”, p.351

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• When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bible, Prayer, Eye

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Friendship, Pain

  "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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• No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

  John Flavel

  Religious, Jesus, Christian Inspirational

  John Flavel (2014). “Fountain of Life: 1671”

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• When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  God, Religious, Leaving

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.53, InterVarsity Press

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• You've got to be centered on Christ. It's a work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit forms Jesus within us. No cross? No crown. No pain? No gain. No way around it - if there was a shortcut, I'd know it and I'd tell ya.

  John Corapi

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.

  Henri Nouwen

  God, Christian, Religious

  Henri Nouwen (2011). “The Selfless Way of Christ: Downward Mobility and the Spiritual Life”, p.27, Orbis Books

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• Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

  Stephen Charnock

  Religious, Nature, Son

  Stephen Charnock (1840). “The Doctrine of Regeneration: Selected from the Writings of Stephen Charnock”, p.102

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• Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.

  John Newton

  Religious, Jesus, Memories

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• Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of the best of all religions. If the cross is the sign of anything, it's the sign that God has gone out of the religion business and solved all of the world's problems without requiring a single human being to do a single religious thing. What the cross is actually a sign of is the fact that religion can't do a thing about the world's problems - that it never did work and it never will

  Robert Farrar Capon

  God, Religious, Religion

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• The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.

  John Flavel

  God, Christian, Strong

  John Flavel (1770). “The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ...”, p.4

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• Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were, to be in collusion with the Church's enemies and in conformity with the open foes of our faith.

  Peter Canisius

  Faith, Catholic, Enemy

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  Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Knowledge, Knowing, Doubt

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• Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Sacrifice, People

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• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bullying, Justice, Sides

  "The secrets of a peacemaker". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

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• Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Depression, Anger

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

  Voltaire

  Religion, Firsts, Fool

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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