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"I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised up through the centuries to build Christ's church and take the Gospel everywhere."
"Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I."
"Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church."
"I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it."
"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces."
"Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that."
"O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it."
"Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord."
"God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions."
"Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints."
"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!"
"What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible."
"This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive."
"He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith."
"If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you notice you were gone? And if the community did even notice would they say 'we are really glad they are gone', or 'we are really going to miss them'?"
"The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission."
"The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes."
"In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs."
"Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries."
"Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned."
