Quotes by Clerics - Page 2

I know Sir John will go though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
Jonathan Swift
We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness.
Alcuin
Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Jonathan Swift
Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason.
John Wesley
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.
Jonathan Swift
I would rather stand against the cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the righteous.
Thomas Lye
Keep us Lord so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
John Donne
Faith is the fountain of prayer and prayer should be nothing else but faith exercised.
Thomas Manton
If we be empty and poor it is not because God's hand is straitened but ours is not opened.
Thomas Manton
Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended upon man.
Archbishop Francis J. Spellman
O Lord you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done as you please. Give what you will how much you will and when you will.
Thomas à Kempis
Bear up the hands that hang down by faith and prayer support the tottering knees. Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein and mercy will come down.
John Wesley
In Fellowship alone To God with Faith draw near Approach His Courts besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.
Charles Wesley
When we make self the end of prayer it is not worship but self-seeking.
Thomas Manton
To God your every Want In instant Prayer display Pray always Pray and never faint Pray without ceasing Pray.
Charles Wesley
Tis an old maxim in the schools That flattery's the food of fools - Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
Jonathan Swift
Possession they say is eleven points of the law.
Jonathan Swift
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
Alcuin
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan Swift
There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.
Thomas à Kempis
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
Thomas à Kempis
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
The flea though he kill none he does all the harm he can.
John Donne
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
John Donne
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
Jonathan Swift
Love all love of other sights controls. And makes one little room an everywhere.
John Donne
If yet I have not all thy love love Dear I shall never have it all.
John Donne
I am two fools I know for loving and saying so.
John Donne
No man is an Island intire of it self every man is a peece of the Continent a part of the maine if a Clod be washed away by the sea Europe is the lesse as well as if a Promontorie were as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.
John Donne
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
Love feels no burden regards not labors strives toward more than it attains argues not of impossibility since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.
Thomas à Kempis
Growth is the only evidence of life.
Cardinal Newman
When the world has once begun to use us ill and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony as men do to a whore.
Jonathan Swift
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
Thomas à Kempis
Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Jonathan Swift
Intelligence must follow faith never precede it and never destroy it.
Thomas à Kempis
Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason.
John Wesley
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
Cardinal de Retz
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift
See the conquering hero comes! Sound the trumpets beat the drums!
Thomas Morell
Love built on beauty soon as beauty dies.
John Donne
What some invent the rest enlarge.
Jonathan Swift
I heard the little bird say so.
Jonathan Swift
For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not nor may strong helpers anything avail nor wise counselors give profitable counsel nor the cunning of doctors give consolation nor riches deliver in time of need nor a secret place to defend if Thou Lord do not assist help comfort counsel inform and defend.
Thomas à Kempis
A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.
Thomas à Kempis
Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of a man.
Thomas Reid
Man proposes God disposes.
Thomas à Kempis
Rock of Ages cleft for me Let me hide myself in thee.
Augustus Toplady
O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
Thomas à Kempis
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best.
Jonathan Swift
Know all and you will pardon all.
Thomas à Kempis
And when he is out of sight quickly also he is out of mind.
Thomas à Kempis
Of all the passions fear weakens judgment most.
Cardinal de Retz
Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God and the things of God.
John Wesley
Reason is our soul's left hand Faith her right. By this we reach divinity.
John Donne
Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave.
Archbishop Trench
The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
Cardinal de Retz
They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives.
Jonathan Swift
Bread is the staff of life.
Jonathan Swift