Top 121 Bishops Quotes & Sayings

Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.

The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.

Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process.

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed

I am Catholic but I want to say something to the Catholics. Thank you for some of the bishops who live in rural areas, and are still Catholic. These bishops of the Catholic churches still pray for the poor, and pray for their president who works for the poor, while the leaders of the Catholic Church only defend oligarchy.

The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.

Let's be clear, I'm one of the thicker bishops in the Church of England.

Some pieces in the King's Indian appear on a 'special price' list: the dark square bishops are at the top of that list.

JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

We were like bishops of opposite color.

I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish.

All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.

For example, this, what I said about the bishops who move pedophile priests, the best thing they can do is resign. This isn't a dogmatic thing, but this is what I think.

Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops

I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.

Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.

There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

The Queen has well-informed opinions of many of her bishops and likes those who are straightforward and intelligent. Both she and Prince Philip believe Christianity is as much about forgiveness as morality.

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.

The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

Lithuanian bishops have been heroic!

I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.

For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.

The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.

God is love, the bishops tell. Yes, I know, But love is hell.

With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.

It is fascinating to see how much Pope Francis relies on the work of the bishops in the Synods.

Father Jude Nnorom also criticized his church leaders, saying the simple lifestyle followed by Pope Francis should challenge African bishops to ask themselves.

And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.

I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture.

While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius.

The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.

Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to pursue the evil to its source, and bathe their heads in the blood of the Catholic bishops, and of the Pope, who is the devil in disguise.

I was called before the king's tribunal like a layman and was deserted in the quarter where I had looked for support. My brethren, the bishops, sided with the court and were ready to pronounce judgment against me.

Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?

I asked [Guadalupe] for the world, for peace, so many things. I asked forgiveness, I asked that the Church grows healthy, I asked for the Mexican people. And another thing I asked a lot for: that priests be true priests, and sisters true sisters, and bishops true bishops. As the Lord wants.

While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having invented their phrases for themselves, but having testimony from their fathers, wrote as they did. For ancient bishops, of the great Rome and our city [i.e., Alexandria, Egypt, where Athanasius was bishop], some 130 years ago, wrote and censured those who said that the Son was a creature and not consubstantial with the Father.

The bishops eat from my hand.

As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition.

In a word, we owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc., but the spiritual and internal direction belongs to the Superior General.

My brothers, the United States Bishops, have reminded us, all are called to be vigilant, precisely as good citizens, to preserve and defend that freedom from everything that would threaten or compromise it.

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.

A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.

After finishing 'The Book of Life,' I needed a bit of a break from the Bishops and de Clermonts. Honestly, I wasn't sure when - or even if! - they would capture all of my attention again.

Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-hearted, but memorable!

Bishops need to resist the defensiveness that institutions often fall back on in crisis moments.

"Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.

I will be praying with my best wishes that the Orthodox move ahead because they are brothers and their bishops are bishops like us.

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.

There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.

Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

If the bishops are saying that it is divine revelation that seven percent of unemployment is morally unacceptable and that that is a teaching which must as a matter of faith be accepted by all Catholics, I respectfully dissent.