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"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."
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"You are special person. Seek to develop your talents."

"Im happy to sit and be an ear to listen when the world gets wild but Id much prefer to watch the ways your eyes in sparkle in the midst of convincing me why you love the things you do. It gives me hope that someone else out there feels everything with this much depth and has the willingness to create a beautiful life from it."

"Inspiration is the power of the soul."

"You were not born to make only a living but to live life."

"Seek knowledge. Learning has no end. Learning makes you forever young."

"PhD is possible at any age!"

"To strive in life, we must either read or write a story."

"We find ourselves in the pursuit of our dreams."

"Discover the inner beauty and wonder within your heart. When you open then follow your Heart your life will become truly wonderful."

"Read enough books to build your sacred soul."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."
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