See also: Women’s ministry
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Jane Austen
The leading defect in Christian ministers is want of a devotional habit.
Richard Cecil
The Lord opened unto me that being bred at Oxford or Cambridge was not enough to fit and qualify men to be ministers of Christ.
George Fox
Prayer and temptation, the Bible and meditation make a true minister of the gospel.
Martin Luther
[The Mayflower pilgrims] held (in opposition to the church) that the priesthood is not a distinct order, but an office temporarily conferred by the vote of the congregation.
John Masefield
What village parson would not like to be a pope?
Voltaire