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I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

Quotes by William P. Leahy

People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.

Quotes by Warren Giles

The Church of Christ is constituted in two orders, the clergy and the people, the one having the care of the Church that all may be ruled for the salvation of souls; the other contains kings, princes, and nobles who have to carry on secular government that all things may lead to the peace and unity of the Church.

Quotes by Thomas Becket

The king, you say, desires to do what is right. My clergy are banished, my possessions are taken from me, the sword hangs over my neck. Do you call this right?

Quotes by Thomas Becket

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.

Quotes by Roland Allen

The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.

Quotes by Rodney Stark

I was born into the Church of England but in the most nominal way possible you can imagine, so it's Christmas and Easter. And then like a great many clergy in the Church of England I actually got nobbled by being a chorister.

Quotes by Richard Coles

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

Quotes by Pope Francis

You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.

Quotes by Karl Philipp Moritz

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Jane Austen

The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing board to hold all the various Orthodox bodies together.

Quotes by Frederica Mathewes-Green

Pope Francis has aimed a blow at what the whole hierarchical system is built on: a graded system with the higher clergy in the skyboxes, the devoted religious in festival seating, as they say of the crowds at rock concerts, and, on the bottom, the laity in standing room only.

Quotes by Eugene Kennedy

Broadcast radio was entering its own golden age during the Depression, with live programming on stations all through the day. Local stations needed singers, musicians, announcers, and whipcord personalities, along with Christian clergy to give prayers and pundits to speak on world affairs.

Quotes by Douglas Brinkley

When I was a young priest in the 1960s and 1970s, there was much experimentation and confusion in the Church. Teachers and clergy were encouraged to communicate an experience of God's love, but to do it without reference to the Creed, the sacraments, or the tradition.

Quotes by Donald Wuerl

Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among clergy and laity alike.

Quotes by David Augsburger

You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.

Quotes by Cheech Marin

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Quotes by Carl Sagan

Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.

Quotes by Bernie Siegel

You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.

Quotes by Benjamin Jowett

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

Quotes by Benjamin Jowett

Moral training in Ireland is severe and lasts until marriage. Even in childhood, we are taught by the pious clergy to battle against bad thoughts so that we may preserve our holy purity.

Quotes by Austin Clarke

Issues like immigration, police brutality, and other onerous laws put in place by local and state governments are prime avenues for active clergy to work with their parishioners on the issues that affect their daily lives.

Quotes by Anthea Butler

The decision to allow clergy to perform same-sex marriages at the discretion of the congregation poses challenges for seminaries training new pastors who come from denominations fundamentally opposed on biblical grounds to same-sex marriage.

Quotes by Anthea Butler

The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

Quotes by Abdolkarim Soroush

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