Clergyman

Famous quotes containing the word clergyman:

    An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
    Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)

    I said in my novel that the clergyman is a kind of human Sunday. Jones and I settled that my sister May was a kind of human Good Friday and Mrs. Bovill an Easter Monday or some other Bank Holiday.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    In necessary things, unity; in disputed things, liberty; in all things, charity.
    —Variously Ascribed.

    The formulation was used as a motto by the English Nonconformist clergyman Richard Baxter (1615-1691)