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> [There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-middleton/there-is-a-rising-generation-in-this-country-who-do-not-know-god/)

[Arthur Middleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-middleton/)

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## More by Arthur Middleton

> [Many people experience Gethsemane moments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-middleton/many-people-experience-gethsemane-moments/)

[Arthur Middleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-middleton/)

> [In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us a reality,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-middleton/in-the-eucharist-priest-and-people-together-come-to-concelebrate-here/)

[Arthur Middleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-middleton/)

> [A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-middleton/a-priest-is-the-god-bearer-or-christ-bearer-a-living-eucharist-of-the/)

[Arthur Middleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-middleton/)

> [The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-middleton/the-church-s-note-must-be-a-supernatural-note-which-distinguishes/)

[Arthur Middleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-middleton/)

> [The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-middleton/the-priest-is-christ-s-slave-and-christ-himself-took-the-form-of-a/)

[Arthur Middleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-middleton/)

> [The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-middleton/the-incarnation-is-the-medicine-of-the-soul-undoing-the-fall-and/)

[Arthur Middleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-middleton/)

> [Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-middleton/priesthood-is-not-a-convenient-historically-conditioned-form-of/)

[Arthur Middleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-middleton/)

> [The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word and Sacrament…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-middleton/the-priest-comes-not-as-an-obscurantist-but-wearing-the-intelligible/)

[Arthur Middleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-middleton/)

> [Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-middleton/priesthood-is-forever-and-does-not-cease-when-a-priest-cannot-carry/)

[Arthur Middleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-middleton/)

> [The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-middleton/the-evil-of-the-church-is-the-doing-of-church-work-in-a-spirit-of/)

[Arthur Middleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-middleton/)

> [It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehensibility of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-middleton/it-brings-spiritual-warfare-and-suffering-for-the-priest-as-he/)

[Arthur Middleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-middleton/)

> [There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-middleton/there-is-a-kind-of-thinking-in-the-church-that-wants-to-reduce-the/)

[Arthur Middleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-middleton/)

> [As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-middleton/as-priests-uphold-their-people-in-prayer-so-their-people-are-to/)

[Arthur Middleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-middleton/)

> [We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-middleton/we-are-to-introduce-our-people-into-the-life-of-the-church-which-is/)

[Arthur Middleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-middleton/)

> [The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-middleton/the-task-of-a-priest-in-some-respects-may-be-different-today-but-the/)

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