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Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity. -- Tom Hollander
... vicars of vacillation ... -- Spiro T. Agnew
Nature, the vicar of the Almighty Lord. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ. -- John Henry Newman
The Holy Spirit, not the pope, is the vicar of Christ on earth. -- Adoniram Judson Gordon
I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England. -- Theresa May
A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne. -- Rudyard Kipling
No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off. -- Alan Bennett
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent. -- John Polkinghorne
[Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something. -- Steven Morrissey
Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation. -- St. Catherine of Siena
Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ. -- Charles Hodge
But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God. -- Charles Hodge
Do what Jesus says,... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18]. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
The apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith. Wherefore, just as they may not institute another Church, so neither may they deliver another faith, nor institute other sacraments. -- Thomas Aquinas
The Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff have primacy in the entire world. The Roman Pontiff is the Successor of Blessed Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, true Vicar of Christ, Head of the whole Church, Father and Teacher of all Christians. -- Pope Benedict XIV
Outside of London especially, I can't go anywhere without people buying me a drink. There are quite a lot of people who know me from The Vicar Of Dibley and are big Dibley fans, but they don't have things to shout at me from that show. -- Roger Lloyd-Pack
A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other. -- Mary Jo Putney
The vicar, whose name is Reverend Waite, leads us in prayers that all begin with 'O Lord' and end with our somehow not being worthy-sinners who have always been sinners and will forever more be sinners until we die. It isn't the most optimistic outlook I've ever heard but we're encouraged to keep trying anyway. -- Libba Bray
The Saviour Himself is the door of the sheepfold: 'I am the door of the sheep.' Into this fold of Jesus Christ, no man may enter unless he be led by the Sovereign Pontiff; and only if they be united to him can men be saved, for the Roman Pontiff is the Vicar of Christ and His personal representative on earth. -- Pope John XXII
Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London. -- Cynthia Payne

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