4363 quotes by clergymen for you to enjoy

I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington. James Green Somerville

Good Home Me People School Group Preparation Desperately Has-Been Able Diplomats Coming Been Off Children Poor CEOs Washington

It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them. Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

Say Minister More Foolish Than Them Even Things Damaging

Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be. Jenkin Lloyd Jones

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My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges for the growing family of children, they brought them to the New World, the world of many intellectual as well as material advantages. Jenkin Lloyd Jones

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Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and woman how the human and the divine love could go hand in hand. Jenkin Lloyd Jones

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The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side. Jenkin Lloyd Jones

America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. Jeremiah Wright

World Killer Still America

We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost. Jeremiah Wright

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