Clergyman Quotes: Wisdom and Insights from Spiritual Leaders (Page 4)

"The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead"

"Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

"God's delays are not God's denials"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

"Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

"At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places"

Francis Arinze, Clergyman

"With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity"

Francis Arinze, Clergyman

"Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level"

Francis Arinze, Clergyman

"In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati"

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

"Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"Growing old is not growing up"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

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

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

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