Famous quotes by Clergymans

"A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven"

Charles R. Swindoll, Clergyman

"Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live, the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it"

Charles R. Swindoll, Clergyman

"When you have vision, it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic"

Charles R. Swindoll, Clergyman

"And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets; if wishes were horses we'd all ride"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"If you love something, let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"Drive slow and enjoy the scenery - drive fast and join the scenery"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"It is as absurd to argue men as to torture them into believing"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"Not lost, but gone before"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"The real "action" in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died"

Andrew Young, Clergyman

"To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

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