The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
A real parish is a wondrously beautiful web of human relationship which is given meaning by the man who is Himself the… — C Kilmer Myers Copy Share Image
I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first… — Richard Morris Copy Share Image
Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I… — Ron Shock Copy Share Image
I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“He was stunning,incredible,unlike anything she had ever seen before.Around her,the crowd noise dissipated to a dull hum,but she barely noticed.Her gaze was… — Laura Wright Copy Share Image
Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
The parish is the presence of the Church in any given territory, an environment for hearing God's word, for growth in Christian… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people, who, despite their constant exposure to messages… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I took a sheet of paper, divided it into debt and credit columns on the arguments for and against God and immortality.… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I began to hear what I was being taught about God, by the priest and my parish, and my exterior teaching did… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel! — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me. — Denis McDonough Copy Share Image
Asked if he knew how important Stardust would be, Mitchell Parish said he did have a gut feeling that this was a… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
