Famous quotes by Clergymans

"Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet of the crystal"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"If you want peace, work for justice"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened, and those which do not matter"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

"We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right, mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

"It's not the having, it's the getting"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

"It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

"If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

"I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

"I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

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