Sinclair Lewisġ2 Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Now and then I have, for my books or myself, been somewhat warmly denounced - there was one good pastor in California who upon reading my Elmer Gantry desired to lead a mob and lynch me, while another holy man in the state of Maine wondered if there was no respectable and righteous way of putting me in jail. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Peter Julian Eymardġ1 Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. Eymard used to visit the parish church and offer him to the hidden God of the tabernacle. During the months she bore Peter Julian, Mrs. Dietrich Bonhoefferġ0 Father Col, an intrepid defender of the Faith during the French Revolution and the pastor of Bourg-d'Oisans where these good people were married, had foretold to them that they would have a son who would become a priest and founder of the Order of the Blessed Sacrament. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men. John Calvinĩ A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both. Pope Gregory IĨ The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. for the hand that would cleanse from dirt must be clean, lest, being itself sordid with clinging mire, it soil whatever it touches all the more. no impurity ought to pollute him who has undertaken the office of wiping away the stains in the hearts of others. Dietrich Bonhoefferħ The pastor should always be pure in thought. Immanuel KantĦ A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest. Pope Leo XIIIĥ Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. In the Holy Place itself, where has been set up the See of the most holy Peter and the Chair of Truth for the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered. Thomas JeffersonĤ These most crafty enemies have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on Her most sacred possessions. even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern. Charles Henry Mackintoshģ To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. The work of each lies very near the heart of Christ- The Divine Evangelist and Pastor. The evangelist gathers the sheep the pastor feeds and cares for them. Alas! Alas! How rare are both! The two are closely connected. Frederic FarrarĢ A true evangelist is almost as great a rarity as a true pastor. 1 A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
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