Quotes of: Parish Keyword

I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.

Andrew Greeley

No saint was ever popular in his own parish.

Breton

It is a poor parish where the priest has to ring his own bells.

Polish

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

John Polkinghorne

You were part of a parish life. It was a great community to grow up in. I just was impressed by our parish priests. After a while, I began to think maybe I could do that.

Donald Wuerl

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

Gilbert White

My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.

Catherine Helen Spence

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

Martin Scorsese

The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

Gilbert White

Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.

Denis McDonough

I look upon the whole world as my parish.

John Wesley

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

Justin Welby

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

George Steiner

I am very much looking forward to being a parish priest.

David Hope

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

Richard Morris

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

Paul Ryan

Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I had a way with words.

Ron Shock

I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I believe to be the call of God.

David Hope

Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.

Richard Morris

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

Glenn Beck

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

Gilbert White