Quotes of: Clerical Keyword

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position i...

Rowan Atkinson

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

Scenes of Clerical Life

Technos and clerics have much in common. Both take a world that can’t be fully understood and try to explain its fundamental properties. Clerics postulate beliefs that can never be proven; they demand you accept these postulates as your Faith, whic...

Unholy Domain

Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detesta...

Scenes of Clerical Life

We try to transform each detainee from a young man who wants to die to a young man who wants to live. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef

Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia

London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in...

Nick Cohen

Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock.

Marcus Brigstocke

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

Noam Chomsky

The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.

William P. Leahy

Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.

Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life

The very word 'history' conjured a dull success of thrones and murderous clerical wrangling.

Sweet Tooth

Brandt: Always practicing, Cleric. Maybe that's why you're the best. John Preston: Maybe I'm just better.

Equilibrium

Brandt: Cleric, I can only hope one day to be as uncompromising as you.

Equilibrium

Brandt: Mind the uniform Cleric. [unsheathes a katana] Brandt: I plan to be wearing it for a long time.

Equilibrium

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

Samuel Butler

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

Summer Knight

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.

Tori Amos

The two sisters wouldn’t sleep with me. But it’s cool, because they were nuns, and I didn’t have my clerical costume on.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

Roger Mahony

[Nicodemus] 'Magistra DeVega, can I ask for your help?' [DeVega] 'You can ask,' she said with her usual calmness, 'but the clerics haven't developed a cure for death by idiotic leadership.

Spellbound

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people ...

Pope Francis