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clergymen
«Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom»
Author: George MacDonald
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
clergyman, clergymen, gate, kingdom, miles, nearer, The Kingdom, thief
«SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
clergyman, clergymen, Episcopalian, flung, momentous, neo
«LL.D. Letters indicating the degree _Legumptionorum Doctor_, one learned in laws, gifted with legal gumption. Some suspicion is cast upon this derivation by the fact that the title was formerly _LL.d._, and conferred only upon gentlemen distinguished for their wealth. At the date of this writing Columbia University is considering the expediency of making another degree for clergymen, in place of the old D.D. --_Damnator Diaboli_. The new honor will be known as _Sanctorum Custus_, and written _$$c_. The name of the Rev. John Satan has been suggested as a suitable recipient by a lover of consistency, who points out that Professor Harry Thurston Peck has long enjoyed the advantage of a degree.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
clergyman, clergymen, join, join forces, psychotherapist
«It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.»
«That God of the clergymen, He is for me as dead as a doornail. But am I an atheist for all that? The clergymen consider me as such- be it so; but I love, and how could I feel love if I did not live, and if others did not live, and then, if we live, t»