Famous quotes by Clergymans

Jeremy Taylor, Clergyman

"Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend"

Jeremy Taylor, Clergyman

"God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends"

Jeremy Taylor, Clergyman

"A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity"

Jeremy Taylor, Clergyman

"Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected"

Jonathan Edwards, Clergyman

"It is easier to exemplify values than teach them"

Theodore Hesburgh, Clergyman

"The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted"

Jonathan Edwards, Clergyman

"How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?"

Francois Rabelais, Clergyman

"When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink"

Francois Rabelais, Clergyman

"All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance"

Theodore Hesburgh, Clergyman

"Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life"

Jonathan Edwards, Clergyman

"True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will"

Jonathan Edwards, Clergyman

"Misery is the company of lawsuits"

Francois Rabelais, Clergyman

"There are more old drunkards than old physicians"

Francois Rabelais, Clergyman

"Nature abhors a vacuum"

Francois Rabelais, Clergyman

"I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century"

Andrew Greeley, Clergyman

"We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days"

Robert Hall, Clergyman

"In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits"

Robert Hall, Clergyman

"I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad"

Andrew Greeley, Clergyman

"Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort"

Andrew Greeley, Clergyman

"So many plusses, so many minuses"

Lionel Blue, Clergyman

"I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things"

Lionel Blue, Clergyman

"Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic"

Lionel Blue, Clergyman

"Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad"

Joseph Roux, Clergyman

"We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum"

Aiden Wilson Tozer, Clergyman

"One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always"

Aiden Wilson Tozer, Clergyman

"Nothing vivifies and nothing kills like the emotions"

Joseph Roux, Clergyman

"Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable"

William Pollard, Clergyman

"Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek"

Sun Myung Moon, Clergyman

"The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world"

Sun Myung Moon, Clergyman

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