85 Parish Quotes
Following is our list of parish quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about commune.
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Famous Parish Quotes
Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub. — John Hillaby
The Church must send or the church will end. — Mendell Taylor
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. — William Blake
The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end. — John Shelby Spong
The local church is the hope of the world. — Bill Hybels
That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation. — Barbara Brown Taylor
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy. — Mikhail Bakunin
Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop. — Glenn Beck
I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community. — Samuel Wilson
New churches and new bars are seldom empty. — American Proverbs
The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world. — Luis Palau
The priest is in one place, and his robe in another — Greek Proverbs
Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing. — Nicky Gumbel
It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church. — Martin Luther
Short Parish Quotes
- Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence. — George Steiner
- I look upon all the world as my parish. — John Wesley
- When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors. — Michael D. Higgins
- I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest. — Martin Scorsese
- As long as men die, liberty will never parish. — Charlie Chaplin
- If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish — John Keble
- The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish. — John Selden
- Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me. — Denis McDonough
- My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county. — Catherine Helen Spence
- Without argument the species would parish. — Gerry Spence
Parish Priest Quotes
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
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
As a parish priest of the Church Of England I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians. — Alan Green
But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk! — John Heywood
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. — George Santayana
Commune Quotes
I live right in front of my daughter. I have a little house right in front of her because I can stay in touch. It's like a little commune, and it's very nice, because you can be close. I can see my granddaughter. I live very close to my brother, too, and my son. We're a very close family. — Debbie Reynolds
If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer. — Huldrych Zwingli
The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightening and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees, ~~ all these have voices, and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related. — Thomas Berry
Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak. — Margaret Weis
Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal. — George A. Sheehan
If you do not commune with God, you may not enjoy the kind of prosperity that God has in store for you. — Folorunsho Alakija
Since the beginning of time mankind has used music and dance to commune with the Spirit of Nature and the Spirit of the Universe… — Goa Gil
A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. — Pio of Pietrelcina
In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something. — Yo-Yo Ma
Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others. — Mary Karr
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More Parish Quotes
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
Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration with exposition needs a great push. People ask me: 'What will convert America and save the world?' My answer is prayer. What we need is for every parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in holy hours of prayer. — Mother Teresa
The unique and indivisible existence of the Lord glorious in heaven, is not multiplied, but is rendered present by the sacrament in the many places on earth where Mass is celebrated. And this existence remains present, after the sacrifice, in the Blessed Sacrament, which is, in the tabernacle, the living heart of each of our churches. — Pope Paul VI
He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear. — Alfred the Great
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
I hope that this form of Adoration, with permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, will continue into the future. Specifically, I hope that the fruit of this Congress results in the establishment of Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration in all parishes and Christian communities throughout the world — Pope John Paul II
The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons -- it was systemic and it was complete. — Gary Shteyngart
I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion. — Fiona Shaw
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
The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery. — George Bernard Shaw
Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect. — Richard Morris
I went to the little church in the country after ten years in the city. And part of my dream was to sit on people's front porches with glasses of iced tea, and all that happened. I was able to send birthday cards to everyone in the parish and able to know everyone who was there on Sunday by name. And that was what I'd been looking for. — Barbara Brown Taylor
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing. — Edward Young
It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country, because he has deserved well of his country. — John Ruskin
We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel! — Pope Francis
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
I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation. — John Wesley
I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures. Because these need to get out! — Pope Francis
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable. — Thomas Carlyle
Money, yes, it is the new religion. And the moguls of the Money Monarchy have become the priests and popes of this irrational age of corporate planetary domination and destruction. Yes, world bankers and trans-national corporate executives are the true religious leaders. Why? Because the highest, most esteemed calling is high finance. Whole nations are caught up in it. It has become the wishful will of the world and money, the worshipped god. The Wall Street Journal is the Bible, the bank is the cathedral and the people are the parish — Wulf Zendik
Parish me no parishes. — George Peele
I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy. — Andrew Greeley
The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door. — Richard Morris
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish. — Gilbert White
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds. — Gilbert White
The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district. — Gilbert White
It's not always going to cost money to turn a parish into a more welcoming parish. But it does take a willingness to change a lot of assumptions. — Chris Lowney
One question I often ask is why the church doesn't set aside funds specifically to seed new ideas. A lot of our money tends to go into existing, literally physical buildings, or existing parishes, programs, and schools, and we have nothing that is very explicitly dedicated toward new ventures of all kinds that would help parishes, help education, help catechesis. — Chris Lowney
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
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
I think our shepherds, our pastors, can take for instance, Chapter Four [of Amoris Laetitia], 'Vive l'amore' ('How to live love'). It's a great catechesis. You can take it chapter by chapter, passage by passage, and work through it in the parish, in the communities. It's a great catechesis on marital and familial love. And I think as pastors, we can use this for our pastoral work. — Christoph Schonborn
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