Bishops Quotes - Page 8

• These [conservative] people, if they're Americans, look back on the last 35 years of our ecclesial experience and take heart from that. The dramatic reform of seminaries continues. The priests and bishops who take their pastoral model from John Paul II will continue to do so, perhaps learning a lesson or two from Francis along the way - and they'll be the overwhelming majority of the Church's ordained ministers ten, twenty, thirty years from now.

  George Weigel

  Heart, Years, Two

  Source: eppc.org

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• I asked [Guadalupe] for the world, for peace, so many things. I asked forgiveness, I asked that the Church grows healthy, I asked for the Mexican people. And another thing I asked a lot for: that priests be true priests, and sisters true sisters, and bishops true bishops. As the Lord wants.

  Pope Francis

  People, Mexican, Healthy

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an Imperial proselyte, whom it was so important to allure, by every gentle condescension, into the pale of the church; and Constantine was permitted, at least by a tacit dispensation, to enjoy most of the privileges, before he had contracted any of the obligations, of a Christian.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Discipline, History

  Edward Gibbon, François Guizot (1859). “Guizot's Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.258

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• While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius.

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Empires, Palaces

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.988, e-artnow

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• The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder.

  Terence McKenna

  Years, Long, People

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• Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion.

  Edward Gibbon

  Names, History, Events

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.209

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• There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.

  Rufus Choate

  Kings, Law, People

  Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.379

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• If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask actual Catholics, you discover that more than 90% of Catholic women use contraception and Catholic women seem to need and choose legal abortion at about the same rate as everybody else. The problem is that the backlash occupies positions of power, not that it represents the majority of people.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Position Of Power, People

  Source: bluestockingsmag.com

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• The Bishop has a skin, God knows,
  Wrinkled like the foot of a goose,
  (All find safety in the tomb.)
  Nor can he hide in holy black
  The heron's hunch upon his back,
  But a birch-tree stood my Jack.

  William Butler Yeats

  Feet, Hypocrisy, Safety

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• For instance, there are many mainstream Reformed theologians that deny the doctrine of "limited" atonement (the "L" in TULIP, the acrostic for the Five Points of Calvinism). These are not thinkers on the margins or troublemakers. They are leaders at the center of Reformed thinking like Bishop John Davenant.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Thinking, Leader, Doctrine

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."

  Sydney Smith

  Flirting, Church

  In Lady Holland 'Memoir' (1855) vol. 1, ch. 9, p. 258

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• The perpetrators of the Inquisition - the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions - were ecclesiastics of one rank or another. They were men of God - popes, bishops, friars, and priests.

  Sam Harris

  Men, Religion, Action

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The gigantic challenge is the magnitude of the individual differences in the optimal set point for "good stress." For one person, it's doing something risky with your bishop in a chess game; for someone else, it's becoming a mercenary in Yemen.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Stress, Individual Differences, Games

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• For Joey Bishop, always was kind of the lost soul, so I did a traffic joke.

  Garry Marshall

  Soul, Kind, Traffic

  "Fresh Air Remembers Garry Marshall, Creator Of 'Happy Days' And 'Laverne & Shirley'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 20, 2016.

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• We really want to send the message that commanders need to understand and be accountable. We saw that with the Catholic Church. No one cared when they went after the priests, but when they focused on the bishops then things began to change. And we see that analogy working with the military.

  Amy Ziering

  Military, Catholic, Church

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually paid my way to Hollywood.

  Garry Marshall

  Writing, Way, Hollywood

  "Fresh Air Remembers Garry Marshall, Creator Of 'Happy Days' And 'Laverne & Shirley'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 20, 2016.

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• One of my great experiences in life was to be interviewed on a late-night talk show by a guy named Tom Snyder. He was interviewing me on a book I had written on the New Testament of the Bible called Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, and we talked about the dating of the books of the New Testament, and I said, "Well, the consensus is that the gospels were written some forty to seventy years after the crucifixion." And he stopped me and said, "Wait a minute, Bishop, that means they couldn't have been written by eyewitnesses."

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Mean, Night

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• Titian and Rembrandt, Monet and Rodin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mark Twain and Henry James, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop, to name a few. Twain wrote 'Tom Sawyer' at 41 and bettered it with 'Huckleberry Finn' at 50; Wright completed Fallingwater at 72 and worked on the Guggenheim Museum until his death at 91.

  David Galenson

  Museums, Names, Frost

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• I wrote to my bishop, the Archbishop of Utrecht, Holland, and explained that I wanted not just permission to stay longer, but a mission. He met me at the Trosly L'Arche community and we spent a few days together . . . I wanted him to get to know L'Arche, to understand what I was doing there. Afterward he said, "I understand now, Henri. You have found a home for your self."

  Henri Nouwen

  Home, Self, Community

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture.

  Anne Rice

  Sex, Support, Catholic

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• I will be praying with my best wishes that the Orthodox move ahead because they are brothers and their bishops are bishops like us.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Moving, Best Wishes

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• I am inspired by my mother's faith and the teaching I receive under the leadership of Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer. I am also inspired by hard work and powerful people who have maintained a sense of integrity, decency, and kindness. Love really inspires me.

  Erica Tazel

  Mother, Powerful, Kindness

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• Christ will remain a priest and king; though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings; but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.

  Martin Luther

  Kings, Religion, Christ

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.82

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• People make their life really hard. It was as simple as this: My parents went to church. My grandfather was a bishop. My mom sang in the choir, my dad played the keyboard, and my uncle played the drums. I was into playing the drums, so I played the drums a lot for my uncle, and it got to the point where I was pretty nice at playing the drums. And he let me play every Sunday so, to me, going to church was fun.

  Fetty Wap

  Mom, Uncles, Fun

  Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

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• At the first meeting I had with the (Italian) bishops in May 2013, one of the three things I said was: with the Italian government you're on your own. Because the pope is for everybody and he can't insert himself in the specific internal politics of a country. This is not the role of the pope, right?

  Pope Francis

  Country, Italian, Government

  "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight interview from Mexico to Rome". www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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