"The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy, holy day celebrations, its early Fathers, prophets and martyrs, its priesthood and its lay sodality, its myths of sacred genesis and apocalyptic crises, its world-saving mission and its missionaries."

-- Michael Parenti

#Father Quotes #Hymns Quotes #Church Quotes

“Give me a chance to create a fever and I will cure any disease.”
“My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.”
“The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.”
“Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.”
“To kill the misconception, I donâ€™t think the songs we wrote before â€˜Danger Daysâ€™ are bad songs by any means. In fact, I kinda think some of them are among my favorites we have ever written. A lot of them are kinda fâ€”ing radâ€¦ they just so happened to have been created in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and we as their parents were not ready to raise them just yetâ€¦ and so they sat and waited.”
“Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.”
“In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.”

Source : "The Reader's Digest", Volume 152, January 1998.
“An essential aspect of maturing is developing the ability to take increasing responsibility for our own livesâ€”to become increasingly self-directed”

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