Clergy/christianity/catholicism

Famous quotes containing the words clergy and/or catholicism:

    “To impose celibacy on such a large body as the clergy of the Catholic Church is not to forbid it to have wives but to order it to be content with the wives of others.”
    —Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)

    “Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)