Quotes about church
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Stanisław Dziwisz photo

“For centuries, the people have always been with the Church and the Church has always been by the people's side because it has always sought to serve the country and not the leaders.”

Stanisław Dziwisz (1939) Polish cardinal

Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz: “Europe was constructed, and continues to be constructed, upon Christian values” https://visegradpost.com/en/2020/05/18/cardinal-stanislaw-dziwisz-europe-was-constructed-and-continues-to-be-constructed-upon-christian-values/ (18 May 2020)

Country , People

“The Church carries out its mission through the help provided by the offerings of the faithful. And we don't know how much people will be able to give. Precisely for this reason we must be sober, rigorous. We must manage the finances with the passion and diligence of a good family man”

Juan Antonio Guerrero Alves (1959) Roman Catholic clergyman

Guerrero: Holy See’s bottom line is in view of mission https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2020-05/guerrero-holy-see-economy-mission-deficit-default-income-expense.html (13 May 2020)

People , Passion , Family , Faith
George Alencherry photo

“If universal jurisdiction over our faithful is recognized to us, we can help foster this energy so that its strength is in the service of the universal Church. Otherwise what we lose the universal Church will lose.”

George Alencherry (1945) Catholic cardinal

“Ours is the faith of the apostles, handed down by St Thomas” http://www.30giorni.it/articoli_id_78071_l3.htm (2011)

Faith , Help , Universe
Eduard Kava photo

“Even if the Pope's project ends, the Church will in fact continue to give its help and stay close to the people.”

Eduard Kava (1978) Ukrainian Roman Catholic Bishop

Pope Francis in solidarity with the people of Ukraine https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2020-07/pope-francis-ukraine-pope-for-ukraine-project-interview.html (28 July 2020)

People , Help
Peter Liu Cheng-chung photo

“The effort to Christianize the family is a journey that should never end. When there is a healthy family, there is a healthy church.”

Peter Liu Cheng-chung (1951) Chinese priest

Commitment to Christianizing the family is a journey that should never end http://fides.org/en/news/27458-ASIA_TAIWAN_Commitment_to_Christianizing_the_family_is_a_journey_that_should_never_end (21 September 2010)

Family , Effort

“Remember, after all, that the Gospel is full of paradoxes, that man is himself a living paradox, and that according to the Fathers of the Church, the Incarnation is the supreme paradox.”

Henri de Lubac (1896–1991) Jesuit theologian and cardinal

Author's Preface, p. 8
Paradoxes of Faith (1987)

J.C. Ryle photo

“It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.”

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

Mark VII: 1–13, p. 136
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Mark (1857)

Home , Heart
Evelyn Waugh photo

“Nice to go to Rome. They are destroying all that was superficially attractive about my Church. It is a great sorrow to me and for once undeserved. If you see Cardinal Bea spit in his eye.”

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer

Letter to Lady Diana Cooper (7 February 1965), quoted in A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes: Expanded Edition, ed. Alcuin Reid (2001), p. 68

Evelyn Waugh photo

“[M]y friends and I are totally at a loss to understand the new form of the Mass... Every attendance at Mass leaves me without comfort or edification. I shall never, pray God, apostatize but church-going is now a bitter trial.”

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer

Letter to Archbishop Heenan (3 January 1965), quoted in A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes: Expanded Edition, ed. Alcuin Reid (2001), pp. 69, 71

God , Loss , Understanding
J.C. Ryle photo

“Before Christ comes, it is useless to expect to see a perfect Church.”

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

Source: Practical Religion (1878), Ch. XX: "The Great Separation", p. 449

Perfection , Christ

“The Church works for the proclamation and the complaint, in order to live in peace. This task begins in the family, which is the first school, and where there should be no violence. We must be agents of life, respectful of people, diversity and the environment.”

Héctor Epalza Quintero (1940–2021) priest

The Bishop of Buenaventura: "Solving the problem of violence with social investment" http://www.fides.org/en/news/33074-AMERICA_COLOMBIA_The_Bishop_of_Buenaventura_Solving_the_problem_of_violence_with_social_investment (17 January 2013)

People , School , Family , Peace
Basílio do Nascimento photo

“We've gone from a traditional system to a modern system that the population needs to learn about, and I believe that the role of the Church today is to educate for democracy.”

Basílio do Nascimento (1950–2021) Roman Catholic bishop of Baucau, East Timor

East Timor bishops prepare for first-ever Ad Limina visit http://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2014/03/15/east_timor_bishops_prepare_for_first-ever_ad_limina_visit/en1-781767 (15 March 2014)

Democracy , Learning , Education
Sevastianos Rossolatos photo

“Our Church needs help. Ours is a mission Church that prays to reawaken values of closeness and solidarity in others. Only in this way can the Mediterranean be a frontier of peace.”

Sevastianos Rossolatos (1944) Greek archbishop

Italian bishops’ meeting on the Mediterranean. Msgr. Rossolatos (Greece): “The courage of peace through the strength of weakness” (11 February 2020) SIR agency https://www.agensir.it/europa/2020/02/11/italian-bishops-meeting-on-the-mediterranean-msgr-rossolatos-greece-the-courage-of-peace-through-the-strength-of-weakness/

Peace , Help , Way
Antonio Dorado Soto photo

“The greatest need of the Church in our times is her own evangelization: to strengthen the faith of Christians, reinitiate in the faith those who are non-practicing and propose the faith to non-believers.”

Antonio Dorado Soto (1931–2015) Spanish bishop

“We have fallen into a culture of religious indifference,” Spanish bishop says (11 September 2007), Catholic News Agency https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/10352/we-have-fallen-into-a-culture-of-religious-indifference-spanish-bishop-says

Faith , Time

“The Christian presence in the East, even in Aleppo is thousands of years old, since the time of the Apostles; therefore, it is very important that it continues, because this also benefits the universal Church - not only the East.”

Joseph Tobji (1971) archeparch of Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo

War and economic crisis in Aleppo cause Christians to flee https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2021-12/syria-war-christian-tobji-joseph.html (13 December 2021)

Time , Universe
Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo photo

“I had never thought for a moment that I might one day be a cardinal. As I was taught since my initial formation for the priesthood, in the Church no one should consider a personal career path.”

Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo (1950) Catholic Cardinal

New Indonesian cardinal: Appointment recognizes country's Catholic minority (20 September 2019) National Catholic Reporter https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/new-indonesian-cardinal-appointment-recognizes-countrys-catholic-minority

Personality
Jean-Gabriel Diarra photo

“We must explain that we are animated by the Spirit of the Gospel: we do not want to impose our faith but we do want to announce it. The Church is not a non governmental organisation it is at the service of the Proclamation of the Word.”

Jean-Gabriel Diarra (1945–2019) Malian catholic priest

“Our intention is not to impose the Gospel but to proclaim it with our lives” President of Bishops Conference in Rome for ad limina visit tells Fides (16 May 2007) Fides News Agency http://www.fides.org/en/news/9548-AFRICA_MALI_Our_intention_is_not_to_impose_the_Gospel_but_to_proclaim_it_with_our_lives_President_of_Bishops_Conference_in_Rome_for_ad_limina_visit_tells_Fides

Faith , Animals

“There is no Church without the Eucharist. The fact that it is not available makes us become a Protestant Catholic Church, because we lack the Eucharist and the other sacraments.”

Eugenio Coter (1957) Catholic bishop

Bishop says Amazon Synod did little to tackle sacramental crisis in region (20 January 2022) Crux https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-americas/2022/01/bishop-says-amazon-synod-did-little-to-tackle-sacramental-crisis-in-region

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington photo

“The real question that now divides the country and which truly divides the House of Commons, is church or no church. People talk of the war in Spain, and the Canada question. But all that is of little moment. The real question is church or no church.”

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852) British soldier and statesman

Statement (1838), quoted in John Morley, The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. I (1903), p. 155

Housing , Question , Country , War

“The decline of the churches was a sweeping social revolution, because they had done more than any other institution, public or private, to civilise Australians.”

Geoffrey Blainey (1930) Australian historian

A Shorter History of Australia (1994)

“In those moments of war, there were no distinctions. They were all lives that needed to be saved. We as the Church had to help them.”

Fiorenzo Angelini (1916–2014) Catholic cardinal

Cardinal remembers Pope Pius XII as wartime hero, saint (2 August 2012) Catholic News Agency https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/25402/cardinal-remembers-pope-pius-xii-as-wartime-hero-saint

War , Help
John Tong Hon photo

“Hong Kong now, rather than a Bridge-Church, can be considered a sister-Church to China. We do not know what harvest all of this sowing will yield, but hopefully it will be an abundant one.”

John Tong Hon (1939) Catholic cardinal

Source: Bishop John Tong, a new cardinal for Hong Kong and China (17 February 2012) Asia News https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Bishop-John-Tong,-a-new-cardinal-for-Hong-Kong-and-China-24007.html

Sister
Julian of Norwich photo

“By three things man standeth in this life; by which three God is worshipped, and we be speeded, kept and saved.
The first is, use of man’s Reason natural; the second is, common teaching of Holy Church; the third is, inward gracious working of the Holy Ghost. And these three be all of one God: God is the ground of our natural reason; and God, the teaching of Holy Church; and God is the Holy Ghost. And all be sundry gifts to which He willeth that we have great regard, and attend us thereto. For these work in us continually all together; and these be great things.”

Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress

The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 80

God , Speed , Nature , Life

“We are Creation in the Human Form. In other words…. our Body is the Church of God. Therefore the Kitchen must also be respected as a Temple, because the FOOD that’s prepared in it enters our Body, which becomes the BLOOD that in turn must Serve our greater Being. As such we can Change the World from WITHIN.”

Roy Littlesun (1934)
God , World , Change , Food
Alexis Karpouzos photo

“I know that our efforts all come to nothing. Analyze life, tear its trappings off, lay it bare with thought, with logic, with philosophy, and its emptiness is revealed as a bottomless pit; its nothingness frankly confesses to nothingness, and Despair comes to perch in the soulI know the end of us all is nothing, I know that at the end of Time, the reward of our toil will be nothing — and again nothing. I know that all our handiwork and all our ideas will be destroyed. I know that not even ash will be left from the fires that consume us. I know that our ideals, even those we achieve, will vanish in the eternal darkness of oblivion and final non-being. There is no hope, none, in my heart. I know, No promise, none, can I make to myself and to others. No recompense can I expect for my labors. No fruit will be born of my thoughts. I know the time — eternal seducer of all men, eternal cause of all effects — offers me nothing but the blank prospect of annihilation. So, my dignity is broken and weak, in recognition of my impending defeat.

The man who is alone, who stands on his own feet, who is stripped bare, who asks for nothing and wants nothing, who has reached the apex of disinterested­ness not through blind renunciation but through ex­cess of clear vision, turns to the world which stretches out before him as a burned prairie, as a devastated city — a world in which no churches, asylums, refuges, ideals, are left — and says: «Though you promise me nothing I am still with you, I am still an atom of your energies, my work is part of your work; I am your companion and your mirror as you march on your merciless way. But I owe nothing to any one. I would be responsible to freedom alone.”

Alexis Karpouzos (1967)

Source: https://alexiskarpouzos.medium.com/at-the-end-of-time-alexis-karpouzos-0b5a34cfbbe9

Despair , Life , Men , World