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Quotes About Parish

The whole world is now my parish. Wheresoever my Master calls me, I am ready to go and preach the everlasting gospel.
~ Steven J. Lawson
If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
~ Glenn Beck
Everyone in this parish is going to die!' "The minister looked around. He noticed a man in the front pew, smiling broadly. "'Why are you so amused?' he asked. "I'm not from this parish,' the man said. 'I'm just visiting my sister for the weekend.
~ Mitch Albom
one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section,—that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon.
~ Thomas Hardy
My parish is bored stiff; no other word for it.  Like so many others! We can see them being eaten up by boredom, and we can't do anything about it.  Someday perhaps we shall catch it ourselves—become aware of the cancerous growth within us.  You can keep going a long time with that in you.
~ Georges Bernanos
Mine is a parish like all the rest.  They're all alike.  Those of to-day I mean.  I was saying so only yesterday to M. le Curé de Norenfontes—that good and evil are probably evenly distributed, but on such a low plane, very low Indeed! Or if you like they lie one over the other; like oil and water they never mix.  M. le Curé only laughed at me.
~ Georges Bernanos
the state of California; state support for parish schools—or, if this cannot be had, exemption
~ Upton Sinclair
One pleasing trait of his character must not be overlooked. He superintended the formation of a subscription library in the parish, and took the whole management of it upon himself. These institutions, though common now, were not so short at the period of which we write; and it should never be forgotten that Burns was amongst the first, if not the very first, of their founders in the rural districts of southern Scotland.
~ Thomas Carlyle
According to most accounts, he was born in 1480, in the remote mountain parish of Sabrosa
~ Laurence Bergreen
Yes, sir," said I; "him too; late of this parish.
~ Charles Dickens
Then it was time for Holy Communion. Seamus was introduced as a "distinguished priest all the way from the Holy Name parish in New York City." I could see that it sounded great to others. But I still saw the old man who made fart noises when I tried to discipline the kids.
~ James Patterson
Elizabeth soon perceived, that though this great lady was not in commission of the peace of the county, she was a most active magistrate in her own parish, the minutest concerns of which were carried to her by Mr. Collins; and whenever any of the cottagers were disposed to be quarrelsome, discontented, or too poor, she sallied forth into the village to settle their differences, silence their complaints, and scold them into harmony and plenty.
~ Jane Austen
Roderick Baskerville-Smythe, estranged scion of this parish," I replied. "I believe I'm expected." "Oh,
~ Chris Dolley
The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.
~ Gilbert White
The parish priests themselves were often illiterate, and many complaints were made about their drunkenness and violence.
~ Peter Ackroyd
We impress Grace with the necessity of taking her umbrella (although the sky is cloudless), and join the throng of fashionably attired churchgoers, all of whom seem to be making their way to the Parish Church. I reflect that neither of my companions is attending church with orthodox motives, but perhaps it is better to attend with unorthodox motives than not at all.
~ D.E. Stevenson
I was licensed and installed as 59th Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Finedon, in Northamptonshire, in 2011.
~ Richard Coles
You were silly like us; your gift survived it all: The parish of rich women, physical decay, Yourself. Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry. Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still, For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives In the valley of its making where executives Would never want to tamper, flows on south From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs, Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives, A way of happening, a mouth.
~ W. H. Auden
After a half century of ministry, F. J. Hallett claimed that in the actual work of a parish, the most successful leader is the one who possesses a keen sense of humor combined with a clear sense of God's grace.
~ J Oswald Sanders
We never appreciated our dominie aright till now. But now no one can praise him too highly. The cause of this his sudden rise in public estimation is a very simple one. He has been called to a New York City parish. And he has accepted the call. This is a curious world, and the most curious part of it is the Church. While he stayed we grumbled at him. Now he leaves we grumble because he is going.
~ Lyman Abbott
It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish.
~ Vincent de Paul
A real parish is a wondrously beautiful web of human relationship which is given meaning by the man who is Himself the meaning of life.
~ Unknown
I leave it to Pater Leoden to distribute the remainder of my worldly goods among the parish, as, being an immoral soul, I will have no further need of them." "You mean, immortal, don't you?" Chronicler asked uncertainly.
~ Patrick Rothfuss