 | Warren W. Wiersbe - 2002 - 176 páginas
...been. I should have been a parson, and had a good living." "No, sir," replied Johnson emphatically, "I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life." Paul would have agreed with Samuel Johnson, for he often used the Greek verb agonizomai when... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1897 - 544 páginas
...comfortable cure. But Johnson held that the life of a parish priest is not easy. His parishioners are a larger family than he is able to maintain. ' I would...chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.' They clubbed Pembroke memories, and Edwards mentioned a gentleman who had left his whole fortune to... | |
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Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir,... 
