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Letter "P" » preachers
«Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please»
Author: Robert Chambers
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
counselors, disinterested, instructors, lessons, oral, preachers
«Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while your preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary»
Author: Thomas Betterton
(Actor)
| About:
Actors and acting
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actors, imaginary, preachers
«If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.»
Author: William A. Sunday
| About:
Hell
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false pretenses, no Hell, obtaining, preachers, pretenses
«Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.»
«I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
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club, come together, cynicism, Journalists, matched, preachers, Sentimentalism
«DO not preach; practice. In politics, in the field of administration, in schools and colleges, in spiritual institutions, everywhere, we have a surfeit of preachers but a famine of practitioners.»
«INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. (See GIAOUR.) A kind of scoundrel imperfectly reverent of, and niggardly contributory to, divines, ecclesiastics, popes, parsons, canons, monks, mollahs, voodoos, presbyters, hierophants, prelates, obeah-men, abbes, nuns, missionaries, exhorters, deacons, friars, hadjis, high-priests, muezzins, brahmins, medicine-men, confessors, eminences, elders, primates, prebendaries, pilgrims, prophets, imaums, beneficiaries, clerks, vicars-choral, archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, preachers, padres, abbotesses, caloyers, palmers, curates, patriarchs, bonezs, santons, beadsmen, canonesses, residentiaries, diocesans, deans, subdeans, rural deans, abdals, charm-sellers, archdeacons, hierarchs, class-leaders, incumbents, capitulars, sheiks, talapoins, postulants, scribes, gooroos, precentors, beadles, fakeers, sextons, reverences, revivalists, cenobites, perpetual curates, chaplains, mudjoes, readers, novices, vicars, pastors, rabbis, ulemas, lamas, sacristans, vergers, dervises, lectors, church wardens, cardinals, prioresses, suffragans, acolytes, rectors, cures, sophis, mutifs and pumpums.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abbot, acolyte, archbishop, Archbishop of, archdeacon, beadle, beadles, beneficiaries, beneficiary, bishops, Brahmin, Brahmins, canon, canons, Cardinals, choral, clerks, confessor, confessors, Constantinople, contributory, curate, curates, cures, deacon, deacons, deans, diocesan, divines, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastics, elders, friar, friars, High Church, imperfectly, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, infidel, infidels, Lama, Monks, New class, niggardly, novice, novices, Nuns, obeah, Parsons, Pastor, pastors, patriarch, patriarchs, pilgrims, popes, preachers, prelate, prelates, presbyter, presbyters, primate, Primates, Prophets, readers, rector, rectors, reverences, reverent, rural, sacristan, scoundrel, scribes, Sellers, sexton, sheik, The Dean, The Infidels, The Novice, vicar, vicars, voodoo
«Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.»
«All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.»
«They (preachers) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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advance, announcing, approach, daylight, daylights, dread, fatal, harbinger, preachers, scowl, scowled, scowling, subversion, subversions, They Live, The Living Daylights, The Witches, witches, witching
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