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1697 Clergyman Quotes

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Another Cannot Destroy Life
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When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

Beauty Brilliance Girl Her
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If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

Catholicism Celibacy Cultural I Think
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The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

About Defects Health Little
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More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

Competitiveness Consequence Consumer Imposed
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Work ends up dehumanizing people.

Ends People Up Work
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Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
Go Journey Life Life Is A
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Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Attitude Church Committed Could
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He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

Devil He Lord Pray
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If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

Banks Die Eat Fall
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Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.

Children Easy Food Grave
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We just cannot worry about ourselves.
About Cannot Just Ourselves
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Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.

Cannot Gospel Jesus Let Us
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Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility.

Between Church Credibility Faithful
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Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing - not only by our words - that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

Alone Before Believing Convinced
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Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Centre Choosing Even Hidden
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We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.

Always Light Live Lord
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When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

Bishops Build Cardinals Christ
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A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Bit Cold Just Less
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There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

Along Attitude Benefit Change
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Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

Adapt Also Am Best
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I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

About Because Chose Community
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My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Arises Aspects Car Choices
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I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Always Am Assess Decision
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I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Accurate Am Definition Figure
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A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.

Always Another Approved Asked
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I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.

Again Because Christ Come
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

Christ Death Desire Died
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May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

Beasts Bones Christ Come
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

Am Beasts Become Bread
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It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.
Christ Jesus Jesus Christ Judaism
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

Appears Bishop Catholic Catholic Church
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Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

Attain Beasts Begin Bones
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Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and invisible, must either believe in the Blood of Christ, or else face damnation.

Angels Believe Blood Both
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Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world.
Anyone Blessings Faith Greatest
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You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you would the Apostles; reverence the deacons as you would God's commandment.

Apostles Bishop Christ Commandment
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.

Command God Reverence Would
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I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

Am Beasts Churches Die
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

Animals Christ God Making
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

Any Deceive Deceived Devoted
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

Condemnation Fear God Let Us
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Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.

Both Brought Earth End
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.

Because Christ Empowers Endure
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Even though I be bound in the Name, I have not yet become perfected in Jesus Christ.
Become Bound Christ Even
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There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.

Christ Death First Flesh
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They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the Spirit, neither can they that are spiritual do the works of the flesh, even as faith cannot do the works of unbelief, nor unbelief the works of faith.

Cannot Even Faith Flesh
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Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.

Better Brought Earthly Foes
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Afflict God Men Pleased
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Hand Hang Him Honest
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
Affairs Essential First Secrecy
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