Famous quotes by Clergymans

"Poverty is from the devil, and that God wants all Christians prosperous"

Benny Hinn, Clergyman

"Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors"

David Wilkerson, Clergyman

"A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments"

Ezra Stiles, Clergyman

"Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of"

Richard Baxter, Clergyman

"Every year of my life, I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false"

Richard Cecil, Clergyman

"So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God"

Jim Elliot, Clergyman

"I found out that many of our Catholics simply don't know what the church teaches, and why, on a lot of issues, and therefore are saying things that they think are okay. They simply don't know"

Roger Mahony, Clergyman

"Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen"

David Wilkerson, Clergyman

"Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do"

David Wilkerson, Clergyman

"We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy"

Ezra Stiles, Clergyman

"Our trade opens to all the world"

Ezra Stiles, Clergyman

"Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces, but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution"

Bill Hybels, Clergyman

"More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat"

Bill Hybels, Clergyman

"It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead"

Bill Hybels, Clergyman

"These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty"

Samuel Hopkins, Clergyman

"Life is essentially a question of values"

Meir Kahane, Clergyman

"About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible"

John Woolman, Clergyman

"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense"

Harold Kushner, Clergyman

"As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light, which makres plain the pathway"

Anne Hutchinson, Clergyman

"Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd"

Daniel Berrigan, Clergyman

"I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it"

Daniel Berrigan, Clergyman

"Willingness to be damned for the glory of God"

Samuel Hopkins, Clergyman

"One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent"

Meir Kahane, Clergyman

"Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor"

John Woolman, Clergyman

"According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men"

Jonathan Mayhew, Clergyman

"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending, that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived"

Harold Kushner, Clergyman

"Hell is paved with priests' skulls"

John Chrysostom, Clergyman

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