The-Church
Quotes on The Church
He cannot have God for his father who refuses to have the church for his mother.
Saint Augustine (354-430) theologian
And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny’s the worst.
Daniel Defoe (1659-1731) English writer
I grant you the clergy are mostly dull dogs; but with a little disguise and ritual they will pass as holy men with the ignorant
Charles, In Good King Charles’s Golden Days George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
A Curate — there is something which excites compassion in the very name of a curate!
Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English clergyman, writer
A congregation who can’t afford to pay a clergyman enough want a missionary more than they do a clergyman.
Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is “I will see you in the vestry after service.”
Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English writer, clergyman
Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous nor a more contemptible animal than a proud clergyman.
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) English novelist, dramatist
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
William Cowper (1731-1800) English poet
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
Saint Jerome (345-420) Christian scholar
The merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
His creed no parson ever knew, For this was still his “simple plan,” To have with clergymen to do As little as a Christian can.
Sir Francis Doyle (1810-1888) English poet
As my poor father used to say, When parsons came to call, “He’s not my sort, but pass the port, Thank God, there’s room for all.”
A. R Herbert (1890-1971) British author, politician
Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don’t mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.
Susan Ertz (1894-1985) British novelist
While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from the outside.
Lord Melbourne (1779-1848) English prime minister
The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
Ralph G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer
Avoid like the plague a clergyman who is also a businessman.
Saint Jerome (345-420) Christian scholar
A little, round, fat, oily man of God. James Thomson (1700-1748) Scottish poet As the French say, there are three sexes — men, women and clergymen.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845)
The Church has an almost pathological preoccupation with survival.
John Robinson (1919-1983) Bishop of Woolwich
The Church after all is not a club of saints; it is a hospital sinners.
George Craig Stewart (1879-1940) Bishop of Chicago
