Sproxton Parish Church Quotes

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

How could someone so rude, condescending, and assholish have this effect on me? Was assholish even a word? ~ Lyra Parish

I could hardly wait for following chapters, which arrived in dribs and drabs, and I began to feel for all the world like the young T.B. Macaulay walking from London to meet the Cambridge coach bearing the next installment of Waverley novels. ~ Vernon Sproxton

Have you heard the saying, 'sex sells'? Well, I'm the supplier. ~ Lyra Parish

You're different. You are the virgin who stayed. ~ Lyra Parish

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

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into the realm beyond words ... It is like that small mirror in the fairy tales - you glance in it and what you see is not yourself; for an instant you glimpse the Inaccessible, where no horse or magic carpet can take you. And the soul cries out for it. ~ Vernon Sproxton

The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish. ~ John Selden

I'm always two inches too short and ten pounds too heavy. Figures. ~ Lyra Parish

It's amazing how time can move both quickly and slowly at the same time. ~ Martin Parish

I look upon the whole world as my parish. ~ John Wesley

There is something magical about losing yourself in a world that doesn't exist. ~ Lyra Parish

Aspire to inspire! ~ Lyra Parish

When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors. ~ Michael D. Higgins

Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason. ~ Sister Parish

Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me. ~ Denis McDonough

Love could be cruel, and toxic, and overpowering. Love could jab you in the heart and leave you dry, but love could also make the birds sing louder, make the music sound lovelier, and make the wind blow sweeter. ~ Lyra Parish

Let your playerhaters be your motivators. ~ Alberta Parish

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

Just as dogs often come to resemble their owners, it seems that programming languages end up reflecting the temperaments and personalities of their creators in some subtle ways, ~ Nick Parish

Parish me no parishes. ~ George Peele

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

My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class. ~ Sarah Parish

Till there is the Sun, shall not dew parish ~ Aftab Alam

Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family. ~ Sister Parish

At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that's where we need to be engaging our people much more in understanding the Word of God ... the Word of God reflected in the traditional teaching of the church, the Word of God reflected in the scriptures, is as much a part of their lives as anything else. ~ Donald Wuerl

We might not be able to change the entire world but we can surely leave a mark by positively touching people's lives one at a time. ~ Lyra Parish

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

Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit. ~ Sarah Parish

The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district. ~ Gilbert White

It has not been an easy name, yet it has brought me many a laugh. ~ Sister Parish

At this time of crisis we cannot be concerned solely with ourselves, withdrawing into loneliness, discouragement and a sense of powerlessness in the face of problems. Please do not withdraw into yourselves! This is a danger: we shut ourselves up in the parish, with our friends, within the movement, with the like-minded ... but do you know what happens? When the Church becomes closed, she becomes an ailing Church, she falls ill! That is a danger ... A Church closed in on herself is the same, a sick Church. ~ Pope Francis

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

I guess I love mischief as much as Amelia Bedelia. I simply enjoy laughing at life. ~ Peggy Parish

I'm really tall, and I used slouch and think it was really uncool to stand up straight - now I wish I hadn't been quite so dumb! ~ Sarah Parish

I most earnestly advise you, again and again, love, honor, and obey your parents. Friends like them, you need not expect to find in this world. ~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

I steady him, he steadies me, the chain that binds us, the chain that sets us free.
- Ben Parish. ~ Rick Yancey

Eventually everyone vacates church where God is not obviously present and working. Getting people back to church is pointless unless God comes back first - that's what Vertical Church is all about! Ritual church, tradition church, felt-need church, emotional-hype church, rules church, Bible-boredom church, relevant church, and many other iterations are all horizontal substitutes for God come down, we all get rocked and radically altered, Vertical Church. ~ James MacDonald

The real church is comprised of a long list of "formers" who collectively work together for world reform. ~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

Focus on writing first. ~ Lyra Parish

Parishioners will welcome the assurance, if news of changes and experiments has come their way, that no such changes are contemplated in this parish church; they will not be used as guinea pigs for liturgical experiments. The form used at weddings and at the baptism of their children will be exactly the same as it has been for centuries.

There have been changes in the world around – especially perhaps in the Victorian era, which we are pleased to think of as solid – but human needs are very constant and those who study it will find that the Book of Common Prayer, compiled from ancient sources in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries meets those needs in a manner more realistic than more contemporary efforts in this direction. It is difficult for instance to discover any need in 1966 which is not fittingly brought to God in the 400 year old words of the Litany. So the motto for our public transactions with Almighty God in the churches of our parish will be 'Business as usual'. If any declare that we stick in the mud, we retort that by loyalty to the Prayer Book we stand on a rock. ~ Beeston Parish Paper

If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton. ~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

I have concluded, after consultation with my friends and earnestly seeking counsel of God, to remain at Alton, and here to insist on protection in the exercise of my rights. ~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever. ~ Sister Parish

There are good books, indifferent books, and bad books. Amongst the good books some are honest, inspiring, moving, prophetic and improving. But in my language there is another category: there are Ah! Books. This is one of them. Ah! Books are those which induce a fundamental change in the reader's consciousness. They widen his sensibility in such a way that he is able to look upon familiar things as though he is seeing and understanding them for the first time. Ah! Books are galvanic. They touch the nerve centre of the whole being so that the reader receives an almost palpable physical shock. A tremor of excited perception ripples through the person. ~ Vernon Sproxton

The best job was when I was at drama school and I cleaned flats in the Barbican. I loved it. They were spotless anyway, so you'd just watch the telly and flick a duster around. ~ Sarah Parish

I'm a big-boned, athletic-looking woman, and I have to make the best of what I've got. I like to stay fit and healthy, but I could probably give myself a break sometimes. ~ Sarah Parish

I've had to deal with my tragedies, and how you cope with them is what life's all about. You can choose to let them consume you or choose not to. ~ Sarah Parish

see a little village a mile ahead of us with a venerable church on a mound in the middle of it gravely presiding over the surrounding wide parish of corn. ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

If I am not safe in Alton, I shall not be safe anywhere. ~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety. ~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

You were part of a parish life. It was a great community to grow up in. I just was impressed by our parish priests. After a while, I began to think maybe I could do that. ~ Donald Wuerl

The Ray of Light does not withdraw. It is the body that withdraws itself, feeling fear. The Real Ray, the Real "You" is as immortal as the Source. ~ Louise Parish Anderson

As the church get older and older it becomes harder to keep evangelism on the front burner because of all the competing issues that keeps pushing it back. ~ Gary Rohrmayer

Missional leaders know that their church will only grow as large as its capacity to provide ongoing care through a network of small groups and ministry teams. ~ Gary Rohrmayer

As the Bible inculcates upon man but one duty in respect to sin, and that is immediate repentance, abolitionists believe that all who hold slaves, or who approve the practice in others, should immediately cease to do so. ~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

The eternal God - the infinite Jehovah - has done all he could do - even to the sacrificing his own Son - to provide a way for man's happiness, and yet they reject him, hate him, and laugh him to scorn! ~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now. This is why you should ask your parish priest to have perpetual adoration in your parish. I beg the Blessed Mother to touch the hearts of all parish priests that they may have perpetual Eucharistic adoration in their parishes, and that it may spread throughout the entire world ~ Mother Teresa

I have appealed to the constitution and laws of my country; if they fail to protect me, I appeal to God, and with Him I cheerfully rest my cause. I can die at my post, but I cannot desert it. ~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

You also realize, Venerable Brothers, that the Eucharist is reserved in churches or oratories to serve as the spiritual center of a religious community or a parish community, indeed of the whole Church and the whole of mankind, since it contains, beneath the veil of the species, Christ the invisible Head of the Church, the Redeemer of the world, the center of all hearts, 'by whom all things are and by whom we exist'. ~ Pope Paul VI

Fortune has, in the main, hitherto looked unfavourably upon me since I left home, but I begin to hope for better things. Still, in all my past distresses, one thought has consoled me - I have learned to appreciate a parent's love. ~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

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

Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks. ~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

I have been beset night and day at Alton. And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this. ~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things are good. ~ Robert Parish

The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church. ~ Jon Stewart

My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county. ~ Catherine Helen Spence

When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city. ~ Sara Paretsky

I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish. ~ Rick Yancey

It seems to me scarcely possible that one who has so long lived in sin, who has resisted so much light and has so often grieved away the Holy Spirit, as I have, should again be visited with its heavenly influences. But I hope it is so. ~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

If I know my own heart, I do now feel the necessity of resigning myself into the hands of my God, to mould and guide me at His will; tho I dare not say that I am, at present, willing to do it. ~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

I think you can have your career and still bring to your family something very, very special. There are some people who are born mothers, who don't want to work and just want to stay at home, and that's fantastic, but for me it was something very difficult. ~ Sarah Parish

While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God. ~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same. ~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Amelia Bedelia," said Mrs. Rogers,
"Christmas is just around the corner."
"It is?" said Amelia Bedelia. "Which corner?"
Mrs. Rogers lauhged and said,
"I mean tomorrow is Christmas Day."
"I know that," said Amelia Bedelia. ~ Peggy Parish

Long before we discovered that he had fathered two children by two different women, one in Drimoloeague and one in Clonakilty, Father James Monroe stood on the altar of the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, in the parish of Goleen, West Cork, and denounced my mother as a whore. ~ John Boyne

If I have been guilty of no violation of law, why am I hunted up and down continually like a partridge upon the mountains? Why am I threatened with the tar barrel? Why am I waylaid every day, and from night to night, and my life in jeopardy every hour? ~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

I'd love to look like my mum when I am her age. She taught ballet for years, and my attitude to exercise and fitness has definitely been influenced by her. She's 84 now, and I've watched how well she has aged, and a lot of that is to do with her fantastic posture. ~ Sarah Parish

Scripture was given to the church, and theology is a necessary work of the church, by the church, in the church, and for the church. ~ Kenneth S. Kantzer

Thursday started badly. Two of the ladies of my parish elected to quarrel about the church decorations. I was called in to adjudicate between two middle-aged ladies, each of whom was literally trembling with rage. If it had not been so painful, it would have been quite an interesting physical phenomenon. ~ Agatha Christie

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall. ~ Francis Chan

Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow. ~ Flannery O'Connor

I love the church, the church that God is establishing, that Jesus died for, so I'll never have any negative things to say about His church. ~ LeCrae

In our discussion of the need for balanced ministry fronts in chapter 23, we looked at the five models of church proposed by Avery Dulles: "the church as institution" (which we might call doctrine driven); "the church as mystical communion" (worship driven); "the church as sacrament" (community driven); "the church as herald" (evangelism driven); and "the church as servant" (justice driven). ~ Timothy Keller

When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to try to feel out what he or she really wants the room to be and to understand, if possible, what "memory," old or new, has brought this idea about. ~ Sister Parish

Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church. ~ Bill Hybels

According to Scripture, the invisible church includes everyone who has ever been genuinely born again for every age of church history. This church will not meet in a visible way until Christ returns. The visible church consists of believers who are alive and meeting together right now. ~ Wayne Mack

I would like a more missionary church,Not so much a tranquil church, but a beautiful church that goes forward. ~ Pope Francis

Many modern Christians will take the best programs from every church while committing to no church. They even have a name for it: church shopping. ~ Mark Driscoll

To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above. ~ Augustus Toplady

The illicit Irish homemade spirit, poitin was frowned upon by the Catholic Church, which made its manufacture grave enough of a sin to require a bishop's absolution rather than that of the regular parish priest. Ah, the lengths the Irish will go to for "the demon drink! ~ Rashers Tierney

The only church that illuminates is a burning church. ~ Buenaventura Durruti

But gentlemen, as long as I am an American Citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject. ~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches. ~ Thomas Aquinas

Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still. ~ George Herbert

For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line. ~ Eric Williams

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church. ~ Alice McDermott

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

God's church is a Bible-centered church, and it grows strong under persecution. ~ Billy Graham

It's all so verbal in the Protestant church. You've heard these words a million times before. Maybe people are leaving the church because they find the church has nothing that they're looking for. ~ Frederick Buechner