Parish Quotes

• So, our vocation is to go, not just to one parish, not just to one diocese, but all over the world; and do what? To set people's hearts on fire, to do what the Son of God did. He came to set the world on fire in order to inflame it with His love.

  Vincent de Paul

  Heart, Son, Fire

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• Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

  Sister Parish

  Aunt, Sentimental, Members

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• We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!

  Pope Francis

  People, Community, Waiting

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.83, A&C Black

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• Vital parishes built on the Bible and the sacraments, committed to evangelizing their neighborhoods, will continue to flourish. The poor will be served, the sick healed, and the dying comforted. None of that is going to change, and I'd wager that it's going to get better.

  George Weigel

  Sick, Get Better, Dying

  Source: eppc.org

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• If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Practice, People

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.5, Penguin

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• Till there is the Sun, shall not dew parish

  Aftab Alam

  Dew, Sun

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• Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

  George Steiner

  Silence, Borders, World

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• Father Col, an intrepid defender of the Faith during the French Revolution and the pastor of Bourg-d'Oisans where these good people were married [M/M Eymard], had foretold to them that they would have a son who would become a priest and founder of the Order of the Blessed Sacrament. During the months she bore Peter Julian, Mrs. Eymard used to visit the parish church and offer him to the hidden God of the tabernacle.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Father, Blessed, Son

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• They left no books , Memorial to their lonely thought In grey parishes: rather they wrote On men's hearts and in the minds Of young children sublime words Too soon forgotten. God in his time Or out of time will correct this.

  R. S. Thomas

  Lonely, Children, Book

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• I began to hear what I was being taught about God, by the priest and my parish, and my exterior teaching did not coincide, did not match up, with my interior reality. And as they were teaching me about that God I was thinking: Who are they talking about? This was not how I experienced God. I gradually began to move away from the God of organized religion.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Teaching, Reality

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• O my dear parishioners, let us endeavor to get to heaven! There we shall see God. How happy we shall feel! If the parish is converted we shall go there in procession with the parish priest at the head. . . We must get to heaven! What a pity it would be if some of you were to find yourselves on the other side!

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Heaven, Would Be, Sides

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• I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor.... Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in the world.

  Dorothy Day

  Cities, People, Community

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• But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!

  John Heywood

  Clerks, Forget, Priests

  John Heywood (1908). “Two Tudor "shrew" Plays - (1) John John the Husband, Tib His Wife, and Sir John the Priest, by John Heywood (c1533): And (2) Tom Tiler and His Wife, Anonymous (c1551)”

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• Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

  Hortense Calisher

  Art, Fighting, Church

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Herself: An Autobiographical Work”, p.343, Open Road Media

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• The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Islands, Jamaica, Perfect

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.129, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.

  Denis McDonough

  Sunday, Community, Afternoon

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• Recent studies have considered the detection of a spaceship visiting our parish of the galaxy. In my opinion that last thought should bring a blush to every human cheek... Fecklessness might be the main theme of the aliens' report on the new-found source of radio pollution ... that emanates from beings who have mastered a lot of physics, chemistry and biology and yet let their children starve-while all around their planet the energy of their mother star runs to waste in a desert of space.

  Nigel Calder

  Mother, Running, Stars

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• When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.

  Liam O'Flaherty

  Men, People, Wife

  'The Mermaid'.

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• I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour.

  Thomas Malthus

  Real, Law, Doubt

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.44, eKitap Projesi

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• Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

  George Santayana

  Long, Poetry, Ancient

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.58, MIT Press

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• Parish me no parishes.

  George Peele

  George Peele, Patricia Binnie (1980). “The Old Wives Tale”, p.64, Manchester University Press

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• Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above us, the light shines golden on daffodils full of rainwine and heartgrass and a terrible, wicked, sad girl I can't get back to. I don't even know if I want to. Do I want to be her again? Or do I want to be free? I come here to think about that. To be near her and consider it. I think I shall never be free. I think I traded my freedom for a better story. It was a better story, even if the ending needed work.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Thinking, Past

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• The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.

  Thomas Malthus

  Men, Law, Independence

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.24, University of Michigan Press

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• All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He told stories very easily and very generously, so I loved him for that. He was a simple man, a Victorian; he was born in 1890-something. He saw no reason and had never seen any reason to question his Christian faith. His faith was strong and simple and that's it. And I, like his other grandchildren and the children in his parish, sheltered underneath it.

  Philip Pullman

  Christian, Strong, Children

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

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• We had the support of the Democratic sheriff of my parish which was the popular Democratic Sheriff of my parish, Harry Lee who was Chinese by the way.He supported me and actually I supported him too, he was a good man.

  David Duke

  Men, Support, Good Man

  "Dr. Duke on CNN: Hear the UNCENSORED FULL Interview Here". davidduke.com. January 5, 2015.

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