Quotes of Parish - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest. ”

- Martin Scorsese

“ A real parish is a wondrously beautiful web of human relationship which is given meaning by the man who is Himself the meaning of life. ”

- C. Kilmer Myers

“ We incline, therefore, to think the parishes should be equal or near, because in the reformed religion the principal use of a church is to preach in. ”

- William Petty

“ Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a "taxing-machine;" to the contented, a "machine for securing property… ”

- Thomas Carlyle
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