A Quote by Martin Luther

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

Martin Luther

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Martin Luther
German - Leader
November 10, 1483 - February 18, 1546

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

Plato

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

Plato

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

Bruce Lee

The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the clergy profession is to make the body of Christ lame. This happens not because clergy intend it (they usually intend the opposite) but because the objective nature of the profession inevitably turns the laity into passive receivers.

Christian Smith

The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today

Seneca the Younger

Endeavoring to live the Christian life by your own efforts is the greatest single hindrance to walking in the Spirit.

Derek Prince

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

William P. Leahy

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

William James

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

Michel Onfray

The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves...these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ.

Thomas Jefferson

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

John Selden

The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.

Christian Smith

In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon.

Hudson Taylor

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

Franz Grillparzer

The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.

Norman Vincent Peale

The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept is continual awareness. The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. The greatest magic is transmuting the passions. The greatest generosity is non-attachment. The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. The greatest patience is humility. The greatest effort is not concerned with results. The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

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