Parish Quotes
Parish Quote of the day
If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
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.
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.
If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
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.
There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.
I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour.
But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
It's not always going to cost money to turn a parish into a more welcoming parish. But it does take a willingness to change a lot of assumptions.
I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.
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.
As a parish priest of the Church Of England I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.
