Churchmen Quotes

#1. Be grateful for holiness when you find it among churchmen, but do not expect it. As Flannery O'Connor wrote, "All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. Priests resist it as well as others.

Rod Dreher

#2. All too many churchmen view the undisciplined & amoral products of statist education as evidences of the failure of these schools. On the contrary, they are evidences of their success.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#3. Churchmen, eh? Love one minute, forgiveness the next, and then it's eternity on fire.

Mark Lawrence

#4. Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#5. Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

#6. In my experience, his reaction was typical of many churchmen when lay people like myself try to explain the irrational using the 'God's Plan' argument. They raise an eyebrow and look at you as if you're slightly bonkers.

Arthur Matthews

#7. In all of these centuries there has not been the slightest shadow of change in the nature of God or in His attitude toward sin.
The Bible teaches from the beginning to the end that adultery and fornication are sin, and the attitude of churchmen does not alter its character.

Billy Graham

#8. The mystics and the churchmen talk about throwing off his body and its desires, being no longer a slave to the flesh. They don't say that through the flesh we are set free. That our desire for another will lift us out of ourselves more cleanly than anything divine.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?

Jonathan L. Howard

#11. But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#12. English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#13. I'm involved in too many things. I have a Web site I'm working on.

Charles Manson

#14. anchor, v.: I drift, I drift, I drift, you stay.

David Levithan

#15. If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

Penelope Lively

#16. Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

Ayn Rand

#17. What we believe at Founders Fund is that technology is a way to help everybody on the planet.

Luke Nosek

#18. Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#19. Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.

Carli Lloyd

#20. Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

#21. Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.

Richard Moss