- Nov 07, 2020
Clergy Quotes
Faith, duty, and the church's place in public life.
This clergy quotes page opens with a debate over whether clergy should weigh in on political matters like war, given views on both sides. Readers drawn to questions of belief will also find Believe quotes a natural next stop.
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- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.
- Easter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bureaucrats
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Key
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bad Movie
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020