Clergyman Quotes

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.
It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything.
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