Quotes About Bishop

And thus the name Katholik? Ekklesia begins to be used, as it is here, to mean "the original Church known everywhere". And that original Church, Theophorus insists, is always recognizable as the one that "clings inseparably" to a bishop appointed by the Apostles.52

Eustathios of Thessalonica, the city's bishop and famous for his commentaries on Homer, was struck by the exotic speech and costumes of visitors he encountered at the imperial court in the capital.

What amazed Cardinal Sandomme not a little was that all the bishops present were behaving as if there were something new and unexpected in the situation, as if some new calamity had suddenly hit mankind's spiritual fiber. Yet this was nothing but the latest step on the road of spiritual degradation mankind had taken long ago . . .

He has referred to the Bishop as a Faun crowned with roses," Lady Anne said severely. "I heart it was a Satyr.

Oh, zug," Zachary grunted. "Not necessarily." The bishop smiled slightly. "Sacred rites become zug, as you so graphically put it, only when they become ends in themselves, or divisive, or self-aggrandizing.

Let that be deemed a proper Eucharist which is administered either by the bishop or by one to whom he has entrusted it.

I don't think," he said, "that a vicar is supposed to beat a bishop to death, or even back to death." Mr. Berkeley looked down upon the remains of Bishop Bernard. "If anyone asks, we'll say he fell over," he said. "Lots of times.

Dalton regarded his chess opponent, from whom the outburst had come. "What on earth has got into you?" Lord Peter sat back, a triumphant smirk on his lips. "I moved!" "Well, congratulations. What did you move?" "Bishop to

Meira að segja Geir Vídalín, okkar góði og meinlausi biskup sem hallmælti engum, sagði um "consul Jón Parker" að þar færi afar "óviðfelldinn og fégjarn" maður. Þegar Jörgen var farinn sást James Savignac æ oftar í fylgd með Guðrúnu Johnsen og

The people who create strain & stress for the population play life as a chess and they could be seen talking of making moves like queen, rook, bishop, knight and others.

Eventually the bishop mounted the pulpit and began to speak. He described the virtues of being meek, poor and humble, while the candlelight gleamed on the jewels in his robes and his plump, self-satisfied face .

reading from St. John Chrysostom that the life of a bishop should be more perfect than the life of a hermit. The reason he gave was that the holiness which the monk preserves in the desert must be preserved by the bishop into the midst of the evil of the world.

Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be the one to relate to theologians to determine orthodoxy.

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.

Throughout his life, he continued to rely on the Jesuits for spiritual direction and confession. When he became a bishop, he took a phrase from the spiritual exercises, Sentir con la Iglesia—"to be of one mind and heart with the Church"—as his episcopal motto.44

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

Marcellus, bishop of Rome, being banished on account of his faith, fell a martyr to the miseries he suffered in exile, 16th Jan. A. D. 310.

but maintained that the bishop of Rome had no authority whatever to dispense with the Word of God.

The term "eddic" is a misnomer: Most of these poems are in a single manuscript, and when the learned bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson first saw this manuscript in the seventeenth century, he perceived a similarity to the book called Edda by Snorri Sturluson and imagined that this manuscript, another "Edda," had been composed by Sæmund Sigfússon the Learned, a priest who flourished in the years around 1100

Well, the cat is flourishing and gets more spoiled and more beautiful every day. His whiskers measure, from tip to tip, including his mouth and nose, of course, ten inches, pure white whale bone.

Once a bishop is appointed, in terms of governance, we are semi-autonomous. It's not like we are branch managers of a bank or something.

The bishop did not whistle. We believe that they lose the power of doing so on being consecrated; and that in these days one might as easily meet a corrupt judge as a whistling bishop; but he looked as though he would have done so, but for his apron.

The bishop did it, and a very pleasant day indeed he spent at Ullathorne. And when he got home, he had a glass of hot negus in his wife's sitting-room, and read the last number of the Little Dorrit of the day with great inward satisfaction.

In 1825 the Bishop of Chester estimated that there were now about half a million Catholics in England, risen from 67,000 in 1750, while in Glasgow the figure had leaped from 300 to 25,000, almost entirely imported from Ireland.