Arthur Middleton Quotes

#1. It is impossible to attain proper physical condition without being sound both mentally and morally.

John Wooden

#2. Life is magical if you are a child at heart and look at the world with wonder and joy.

Debasish Mridha

#3. I believe there's a God but I'm not too sure of his relevance.

Trent Reznor

#4. Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-

Christian Smith

#5. I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.

Cass Sunstein

#6. As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.

Arthur Middleton

#7. There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.

Arthur Middleton

#8. Many people experience Gethsemane moments.

Arthur Middleton

#9. We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.

Arthur Middleton

#10. There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.

Arthur Middleton

#11. There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.

Richard Dawkins

#12. The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to avoid this is for the priest to be instant in prayer. If he is not, he will lose that touch of the supernatural, without which he has no right to be a priest at all.

Arthur Middleton

#13. Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.

Arthur Middleton

#14. I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.

Christa McAuliffe

#15. The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more horror in 'Holmes' that people possibly think of. There's a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares.

Mark Gatiss

#16. I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter.

Blake Lively

#17. 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.

Arthur Middleton

#18. Something has gone badly wrong with our culture. We've created a culture where really large numbers of the people around us can't bear to be present in their daily lives. They need to medicate themselves to get through their day.

Johann Hari

#19. The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.

Arthur Middleton

#20. Times have changed since George Herbert ... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.

Arthur Middleton

#21. Few things were so sure and simple that they could be taken at face value.

William Kent Krueger

#22. 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 people find God's consolation, understanding and love.

Arthur Middleton

#23. The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.

Arthur Middleton

#24. If you cannot see the fineness in my Hammer, you'd best look at him with better eyes.

Amy Lane

#25. In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us a reality, the medicine that cures our souls.

Arthur Middleton

#26. Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.

Arthur Middleton

#27. Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

William S. Cohen

#28. 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 human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

Arthur Middleton

#29. Samara wasn't sure how they'd respond to an angel that liked Hell better than Heaven.

R. Woodrose