Anthraxus/worshipers/clergy

Famous quotes containing the words worshipers and/or clergy:

    Surely he is a god; either he is meditating, or he has wandered away, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.
    Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 18:27.

    Elijah mocking worshipers of Ba’al.

    I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
    Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)