Arinze Quotes

#1. My father, Arinze Ejiofor , was a musician and a doctor. Nobody's ever asked me about that combination and what growing up in that environment was like.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#2. Every meal should be prepared with love and eaten in peace, because its purpose is to strengthen us for the service of Love.

Catherine Doherty

#3. There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

Francis Arinze

#4. The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.

Francis Arinze

#5. With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.

Francis Arinze

#6. Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.

Francis Arinze

#7. Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

Francis Arinze

#8. Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children

Madeleine Bunting

#9. Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.

Francis Arinze

#10. Vatican II declares the Church ... as necessary for salvation.

Francis Arinze

#11. The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.

David Livingstone

#12. Fulfilling your destiny is like going on an errand assignment. You must run it to make it meaningful. You don't become who you should become when you remain passionlessly without taking actions.

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. I'm as apolitical as possible. I don't hang out with too many people. I'm a loner. For the most part, when I show up, I read a book or work on my computer, and stay out of everybody else's way.

Eric Bischoff

#14. There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

Francis Arinze

#15. He who goes on acting with energy has a (firm) will.

Lao-Tzu

#16. Couldn't handle the celibacy?

Anonymous

#17. We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act.

Michael Josephson

#18. This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.

Christopher Owens

#19. Growing up, I spent summers with my grandparents in a small seaside town in Croatia. It's the most beautiful place on the planet. I still go back every year. It reminds me of what's important in life.

Vanya Asher

#20. I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.

Nicollette Sheridan

#21. The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

Francis Arinze

#22. And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism.

Kahlil Gibran