Top Clergyman Quotes
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson
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.
Alfred Russel Wallace
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Henry Fielding
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
George MacDonald
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.
Julius Streicher
Herman Melville 
William Hull 
Henry Fielding 
George MacDonald 
Evelyn Waugh 
Samuel Richardson 
Alfred Russel Wallace 
Stephen Bayne 
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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson 
84% of people like this quote
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.
Alfred Russel Wallace
54% of people like this quote
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Henry Fielding
52% of people like this quote
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
George MacDonald
52% of people like this quote
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.
Julius Streicher
52% of people like this quote
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.
William Hull
51% of people like this quote
Some will have to cease thinking of the Church as a memorial association for a deceased clergyman called Christ.
Stephen Bayne
50% of people like this quote
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.
Evelyn Waugh
49% of people like this quote
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.
Herman Melville
46% of people like this quote