The Church needs…
The Church needs a perennial Pentecost. She needs fire in her heart, words on her lips, prophecy in her outlook.
–Pope Paul VI (1897-1978)
The Church of…
The Church of Christ is always, so to speak, in a situation of Pentecost: she is always gathered in the Upper Room in prayer, and at the same time, driven by the powerful wind of the Spirit, she is always on the streets preaching.
–Saint John Paul (1920-2005)
If you read history…
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.
–CS Lewis (1863-1929)
The Church has a divine origin, but…
As a Catholic, my faith tells me that the Church has a divine origin, but my own experience tells me that it must be divine because no human institution run with an equal mixture of ineptitude and wickedness would have lasted a fortnight.
–Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
If the scandal comes…
If the scandal comes from the truth, one must endure the scandal rather than conceal the truth.
–Saint Gregory the Great (590- 604)
Harmony of hearts…
It is fitting, therefore, that you should be in agreement with the mind of the bishop as in fact you are. Your excellent presbyters, who are a credit to God, are as suited to the bishop as strings to a harp. So in your harmony of mind and heart the song you sing is Jesus Christ. Every one of you should form a choir, so that, in harmony of sound through harmony of hearts, and in unity taking the note from God, you may sing with one voice through Jesus Christ to the Father. If you do this, he will listen to you and see from your good works that you are members of his Son. It is then an advantage to you to live in perfect unity, so that at all times you may share in God.
–Saint Ignatius of Antioch (First Century)
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