"If you would lift me, you must be on higher ground."

"Our high mission, our noble calling, is to build up souls, to perfect the Christian life, and to make manhood accepta…"

"A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, a…"

"ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop."

"CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones."

"[The priesthood] truly plays the role of 'mediator' between heaven and earth, and it is not without reason that in th…"

"It is worth noting that Protestantism suppresses the clergy, and though it claims to uphold the authority of the Bibl…"

"Minister doth not always import an inferior to him to whom he doth minister: for the Psalm saith, God hath made man p…"

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

"There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the c…"