Quotes of Reverend - somelinesforyou

“ Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise! ”

- Lord Byron

“ A successful woman preacher was once asked 'what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry?' 'Not one,' she answered, 'except the lack of a minister's wife.'. ”

- Anna Garlin Spencer

“ Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis "good works" make the man. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. ”

- Voltaire

“ No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame; a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ If there is no Hell a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. ”

- William A. Sunday

“ Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me? ”

- Annie Dillard

“ The Minister really set a positive tone. I think it's the first time an education minister made a public statement that funding in these areas was flat. ”

- Bruce Campbell

“ Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend-and he's a priest. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine. ”

- Bible

“ I don't mind how much my ministers talk — as long as they do what I say. ”

- Margaret Thatcher

“ My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. ”

- John Lennon

“ There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth. ”

- Penelope Leach

“ The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do something.'. ”

- Billy Graham

“ Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids! ”

- William Cowper

“ Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words. ”

- Bible

“ The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means a witness, a shepherd, an apostle on the move. ”

- Pope Paul VI

“ I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ How often the priest had heard the same confession — Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice. ”

- Graham Greene

“ Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him. ”

- Evan Esar

“ I shall always be a priest of love. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even. ”

- Bible

“ Get a prayer-book in your hand,And stand betwixt two churchmen. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Justice is the only worship.Love is the only priest. ”

- Robert G. Ingersoll

“ English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. - Garrison Keillor. ”

- Garrison Keillor

“ It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He, too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers. ”

- W. Averell Harriman
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