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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."
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"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."
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"A church debt is the devil's salary."
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"My mind is my own church."
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"I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church."
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"Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable."
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"Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?"
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"Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock."
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"As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country."
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"You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church."
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"The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool."
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"Many people experience Gethsemane moments."
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"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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"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."
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"There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion."
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"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."
Life
"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."
Work
"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."
God
"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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"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."
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"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."
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