Quotes About Parishioners

#1. The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.

Sarah Ash

#2. pastors throughout the countryside around Rome had reminded their parishioners that Jesus was a Jew in order to coax them into opening their doors. Catholic guilt was a powerful tool,

Amy Harmon

#3. Many Buddhist temple priests regard their parishioners as possessions and fear their departure as a diminishing of assets.

Kentetsu Takamori

#4. It is often the parishioners, the men and women in the pews, who set the tone.

Andrew Pettegree

#5. But as much as being the person who is the best Christian, who "follows Jesus" the most closely can feel a little seductive, it's simply never been who I am or who my parishioners need me to be. I'm not running after Jesus. Jesus is running my ass down.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#6. As the bitterroots, necessary for the healing but unpleasant to taste. (What Father Sacco's parishioners say about the man.)

Joseph C. Sciarillo

#7. Those straight-spined parishioners could justify their exhibitionism by telling themselves that they were setting an example, even educating the rest of us.

Maureen Corrigan

#8. Such pedantic apotheosis is reached by so few, and when parishioners are left without their guiding star, we can only desperately cling to the last intimations of a passing titan.

Michelle Franklin

#9. The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's value rather than what it produced. This meant that, while parishioners could suffer through a terrible year, clergy would always have a comfortable one.

Bill Bryson

#10. Dependence on the pastor turns the church inward instead of keeping its focus on reaching out. Everyone knows that the addition of more people threatens this great relationship with the pastor and creates competition between parishioners for the pastor's time.

Jim Griffith

#11. I believe passionately in edutainment - whether in front of a business audience, a classroom of students or a crowd of parishioners at church. Laughter

Paco Underhill

#12. A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.

Simon Hoggart

#13. I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to the community.

Geoffrey Canada

#14. I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.

Aldous Huxley

#15. Pastors and Bible teachers go about their work in communal settings, where they listen to as well as deliver sermons, hear as well as speak, and gain biblical insights from their parishioners as much as they pass them on.

Peter J. Leithart

#16. It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case.

Chuck Klosterman

#17. If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?

Susane Colasanti

#18. I've done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone it and repair stuff, to go back and watch old episodes and go, "Oh no, that's a misstep. That's a victory. I should do more of that, less of that."

Vera Farmiga

#19. I feel like human beings cover up their scent with all these different things and products. I feel like we've given up our ability to engage with people because we don't know how people smell anymore.

Nikki Reed

#20. I worry that free imagination is overvalued, and I think this carries risks.

Carlo Rovelli

#21. No generation at any time has ever lived in a world so rich and diverse in storytelling. It changed you.

Brian Bennudriti

#22. Churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.

Stephen R. Covey

#23. I'm capable of living in the moment. And I'm especially capable of living in the moment of sitting on my sofa and watching other people's moments.

Samantha Bee

#24. England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.

Emo Philips

#25. We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

#26. I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.

Gary Johnson

#27. The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine world, but one that allows myth to live. The myth is everything.

Sergio Leone

#28. The reason Jennifer Lawrence is allowed to be a body-positive role model to young girls and 'chubby' women is because she is representative of conventional beauty.

Jennifer Armintrout

#29. Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

Bill Bryson

#30. Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

Bryant McGill

#31. We would all rather see Iraq resolved successfully.

Charles Kennedy