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Faith across the centuries

These clergyman quotes include a somber historical account of a condemned man's final, denied requests, including for a Bible.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Bible
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Nov 07, 2020

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

Quotes by William Hull

Brave
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Nov 07, 2020

When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Music
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Nov 07, 2020

Music has given me a decent pension. I am in that rare position for a clergyman of having some provision for my retirement. Thank you, young people of Europe.

Quotes by Richard Coles

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.

Quotes by J. G. Ballard

Ride
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Nov 07, 2020

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

Herman Melville

Person
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Nov 07, 2020

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

Others reflect on education and Belief, imagining every church as a school and every clergyman as a teacher.

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