clergy quotes

If Her Majesty's Government be really desirous of seeing a well-conducted community spring up in these Colonies, the social wants of the people must be considered† For all the clergy you can despatch, all the schoolmasters you can appoint, all the churches you can build, and all the books you can export, will never do much good without what a gentleman in that Colony veryappropriately called 'God's police'wives and little childrengood and virtuous women. 213

- Caroline ne  e Jones Chisholm
Emigration and Transportation Relatively Considered; in a Letter, Dedicated, by Permission, to Earl Grey,17  Jun. The phrase 'God's police' was adopted by Australian feminist  Anne

Hashenot a rogue'sface?†a haunting-look tome†has a damned Tyburn-face, without the benefit o'the Clergy.

-William Congreve
  Of Sir Sampson. Love for Love, act 2, sc.7.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved inanynationwhere Christianity wasthereligion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

-Jonathan Swift
  Thoughts on Religion.