{"quotes":[{"text":"He was just a small church parson when the\twar broke out, and heLooked and dressed and acted like all parsons\tthat we see.He wore the cleric's broadcloth and he hooked\this vest behind.But he had a man's religion and he had a stong\tman's mind.And he heard the call to duty, and he quit his\tchurch and went.And he bravely tramped right with 'em every-\twhere the boys were sent.He put aside his broadcloth and he put the\tkhaki on;Said he'd come to be a soldier and was going\tto live like one.Then he'd refereed the prize fights that the boys\tpulled off at night,And if no one else was handy he'd put on the\tgloves and fight.He wasn't there a fortnight ere he saw the sol-\tdiers' needs,And he said: 'I'm done with preaching; this\tis now the time for deeds.'He learned the sound of shrapnel, he could tell\tthe size of shellFrom the shriek it make above him, and he knew\tjust where it fell.In the front line trench he laboured, and he knew\tthe feel of mud,And he didn't run from danger and he wasn't\tscared of blood.He wrote letters for the wounded, and he cheered\tthem with his jokes,And he never made a visit without passing round the smokes.Then one day a bullet got him, as he knelt be-\tside a ladWho was 'going west' right speedy, and they\tboth seemed mighty glad,'Cause he held the boy's hand tighter, and he \tsmiled and whispered low,'Now you needn't fear the journey; over there\twith you I'll go.'And they both passed out together, arm in arm\tI think they went.He had kept his vow to follow everywhere the\tboys were sent.","author":"Edgar A. Guest","tags":["chaplain","death","war"],"id":19004,"author_id":"Edgar+A.+Guest"},{"text":"Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.","author":"William Sloane Coffin Jr.","tags":["chaplain","christianity","religion","religion-and-children","yale"],"id":370670,"author_id":"William+Sloane+Coffin+Jr."},{"text":"Jefferson also founded the first intentionally secularized university in America. His vision for the University of Virginia was for education finally free from traditional Christian dogma. He had a disdain for the influence that institutional Christianity had on education. At the University of Virginia there was no Christian curriculum and the school had no chaplain.","author":"Daryl C. Cornett","tags":["america","chaplain","disdain","education","jefferson","secular","thomas-jefferson","university","university-of-virginia","uva"],"id":381053,"author_id":"Daryl+C.+Cornett"},{"text":"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["angelic","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","atheism","atheist","atheists","bad","base","believer","believers","bible","blameless","chaplain","chaplains","church","churches","churchman","churchmen","clergyman","clergymen","cleric","clerics","congregation","congregations","corrupt","criminal","crooked","curate","curates","debased","debauched","decent","degenerate","depraved","dishonest","dishonorable","disreputable","dissolute","ecclesiastic","ecclesiastics","ethical","evil","foul","funny","godless","good","high-minded","hilarious","honest","honorable","humor","humorous","humour","image","imam","imams","immoral","impress","impression","impure","iniquitous","irreproachable","joke","jokes","law-abiding","lewd","licentious","loose","lowdown","man-of-the-cloth","men-of-the-cloth","minister","ministers","miscreant","moral","morally-wrong","nefarious","noble","nonbeliever","nonbelievers","obscene","padre","padres","pagan","parson","parsons","pastor","pastors","persona","perverse","perverted","preacher","preachers","priest","priests","principled","promiscuous","pure","quotations","quotes","rector","rectors","reprobate","reverend","reverends","righteous","saintly","satire","shady","shameless","sinful","sleazy","synagogue","synagogues","unchaste","unconscionable","unethical","unprincipled","unscrupulous","unvirtuous","upright","upstanding","vicar","vicars","vile","villainous","virtuous","wanton","wicked","wish","wrongful"],"id":426214,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}