As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through Hell.
Elbert Hubbard

The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.
Samuel Johnson

If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.
Martin Luther