(noun) A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.
"I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me."
"Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry."
"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."
"In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church."