Quotes by Clerics - Page 6

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
Thomas à Kempis
No man is an island, entire of itself.
John Donne
Living the good life as created beings depends on living within the limits and according to the truths of the human condition. Purity of heart and the capacity to channel desires toward personal self-mastery in holiness are part of the high calling of the Christian life. These remain necessities, despite the promises of a false humanism that claims that human nature has neither limits nor boundaries, being infinitely plastic and malleable -- a vain and counterproductive attempt to liberate humans from guilt.
George Cardinal Pell
I know Sir John will go though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
Jonathan Swift
When the world has once begun to use us ill and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony as men do to a whore.
Jonathan Swift
Symptoms of chronic stress are feelings of fragmentation and of chasing after time - of not being able to be present. What we are looking for is a settled, joyful state of being, and we need to give this state space. The Archbishop once told me that people often think he needs time to pray and reflect because he is a religious leader. He said those who must live in the marketplace - business people, professionals and workers - need it even more.
Desmond Tutu
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Desmond Tutu
When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
Jonathan Swift
Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.
Thomas à Kempis
They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives.
Jonathan Swift
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift
There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.
Jonathan Swift
A charge to keep I have A God to glorify: A never-dying soul to save And fit it for the sky.
Charles Wesley
It was a common saying among the Christians in the primitive Church, "The soul and the body make a man; the spirit and discipline make a Christian;" implying, that none could be real Christians, without the help of Christian discipline. But if this be so, is it any wonder that we find so few Christians; for where is Christian discipline
John Wesley
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Desmond Tutu
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan Swift
She was only a dew drop that sparkled a short while under the brilliant rays of heaven's sunlight.
Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds
If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth.
Thomas à Kempis
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit remind us that there is always more of God than we know, always more of God than we can explain, always more of God than we can show. The Trinity says God is not in a box but is bigger, much bigger than we imagine. God is more powerful than we sometimes want to believe or remember, but in remembering there is great comfort.
Thomas R. Steagald
More than kisses letters mingle souls.
John Donne
But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Jonathan Swift
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.
Jonathan Swift
She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
Jonathan Swift
As well as being essential to theological study, philosophy is an indispensable tool for communicating theology, for evangelization and catechesis. A faith based on how warm and comfortable you feel and how "affirmed" you are by your community is pleasant, but there is no guarantee that it is true. Fides et ratio make clear that philosophy's central tasks are to justify our grasp of reality, of truth, and to make cogent suggestions as to life's true meaning. Being able to say something compelling on these topics -- reality, truth, and life's meaning -- is critical in winning young and old alike to the faith. A theology that incorporates philosophy's work in these areas will be faithful to the teaching of the Church and able to stand up to the most rigorous secular arguments and the ideologies of the age.
George Cardinal Pell
Certainly this is a duty not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."
John Wesley
If you can keep alive in your heart the spirit of cheerfulness, the love of the wonderful, the sweet amazement of happy thoughts, the challenge of service, the lure of tomorrow and the joy of today, you will never grow old.
Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds
When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he who is poor and humble of heart lives in a world of peace. An unmortified man is quickly tempted and overcome in small, trifling evils; his spirit is weak, in a measure carnal and inclined to sensual things; he can hardly abstain from earthly desires. Hence it makes him sad to forego them; he is quick to anger if reproved. Yet if he satisfies his desires, remorse of conscience overwhelms him because he followed his passions and they did not lead to the peace he sought.
Thomas à Kempis
If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Desmond Tutu