"The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel."

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Source : Philip Berrigan, Fred Wilcox (1996). “Fighting the lamb's war: skirmishes with the American Empire : the autobiography of Philip Berrigan”, Common Courage Pr

Philip Berrigan

#Church Quotes #Bureaucracy Quotes

“When you have a position, you put it on for a reason, and you've got to keep it until the reason no longer exists.”
“There's a difference between a sense of humor and a sense of funny. A sense of humor is knowing what makes you laugh and a sense of funny is knowing what makes other people laugh. The journey of comedy, in a sense, is negotiating those two worlds.”
“I'm an actor. I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. I don't really care about jokes either. I tire of jokes.”
“The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis”
“Nights were the worst. I'd try to get some sleep, only to be thrown out of bed and dragged out into the compound for another game of "Let's whack Bobby in the dark!" - Bobby Pendragon, RoZ”
“I've got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all.”

Source : Rebecca Goldstein (2000). “Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.”
“The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument.”

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