Ecclesial Community Quotes

#1. The great tasks facing the ecclesial community in the modern world - and among the many I particularly stress evangelization and ecumenism - are centered on the Word of God and, at the same time, draw therefrom their justification and support.

Pope Benedict XVI

#2. I am offended only by certain sorts of wallpaper

Thomas Pynchon

#3. Why you'll never see a woman with a bomb in her shoe: we have too much respect for shoes.

Carolyn V. Hamilton

#4. Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world.

Mitch Albom

#5. The male gender remembers only the things that entertain them.

Dante Burroughs

#6. And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.

Michelle Obama

#7. He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline.

James Merrill