Bishops Quotes - Page 7

• As you climb the mountains of life, stay on the path of virtue. There will be others to help you- your parents, family members, bishops, advisers, and righteous friends of all ages. And if you are weary or take a wrong turn, change your direction and get back on the path of virtue. Always remember that the Savior is there for you. He will enable you to repent, strengthen you, lighten your burdens, dry your tears, comfort you, and continue to help you stay on the path.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Parent, Mountain, Tears

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• Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Journey, Wings, Gentleman

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.314

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• See that ye all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as ye would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. [] Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. [] Whatsoever [the bishop] shall approve of, that is also pleasing to God, so that everything that is done may be secure and valid.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Father, Men

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• British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.

  James Joyce

  Beer, Bulldogs, Beef

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• Catholics don't scream about Jesus, they scream about the bishop.

  John Sandford

  Jesus, Catholic, Scream

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• For me, actually, being a bishop in a bishopric where there's an academic tradition gives me this fascinating, challenging, but open invitation to say, "We want you to be a scholar. We want you to go on doing this. But do it as a bishop!"

  N. T. Wright

  Giving, Challenges, Goes On

  Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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• If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Nice, Believe

  "Scientists divided over alliance with religion" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2007.

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• Every bishop can testify to the promptings that attend calls to serve in the Church. Frequently the call seems to be for the benefit not so much of those to be taught or led as for the person who is to teach or lead.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Church, Taught, Benefits

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• If you rise in life, you have to behave in a certain way. You can go to a strip club if you're a beer-swilling sand shoveler, but if you're the Bishop of Boston, you shouldn't go.

  Charlie Munger

  Beer, Boston, Clubs

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• All I can say is Bishop Jakes would not currently accept the designation of Prosperity Preacher or Word of Faith Preacher as an accurate description of what he believes currently. Now his ministry will have to bear that out. I'm not here to defend him or stick up for his various errors. And I don't want to minimize error that is significant. All I'm saying is that he, as of two weeks ago, would not accept those terms, in private conversation, as accurate descriptors of what he believes.

  James MacDonald

  Believe, Errors, Two

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• It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Dad, Spring, Kids

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (2000). “Respect: An Exploration”, p.4, Basic Books

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• Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

  Julian Assange

  Kings, Slave, Serfs

  "Julian Assange rails against surveillance on Today programme" by Matthew Weaver, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2014.

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• They say the Catholic church played a big role in the genocide... and now they have me, a bishop, as proof, a prize to say there, that's what they did.

  Augustin Misago

  Scary, Catholic, Church

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• The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.

  Rick Yancey

  Beautiful, Queens, Kings

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.31, Penguin

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• I think God is back, I think there is a huge amount of spiritual interest in the country. And I think the bishops are supportive of it because they see people's lives being changed. They see the difference. I see people who've been in prison, whose lives have been messed up, who've been alcoholics, who've been drug addicts, set free and contributing to society.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Spiritual, Country, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Peace, Military, War

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• The Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion primarily because it is the most extended and definitive witness we have of the Lord Jesus Christ-of our Alpha and Omega, the True Vine, the Bishop and Shepherd of our Soul, he who is the Key Stone, the Chief Cornerstone of the eternal gospel.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Jesus, Book, Keys

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• In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen, Larry Bishop and myself. We're bikers, and I play Billy Wings; I've got all sorts of wings, and you have to watch the movie to find out what the wings are about.

  Vinnie Jones

  Play, Wings, Watches

  "Vinnie Jones Interviewed - THE CONDEMNED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 22, 2007.

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• The Episcopalians don't demand much in the way of actual religious belief. They have girl priests, gay priests, gay bishops, gay marriages? it's much like the New York Times editorial board. They acknowledge the Ten Commandments? or "Moses' talking points"? but hasten to add that they're not exactly "carved in stone."

  Ann Coulter

  Girl, Religious, New York

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.105, Crown Forum

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• The bishops eat from my hand.

  Maurice Duplessis

  Hands

  Characteristic remark, recalled in Conrad Black Duplessis (1977).

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• There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a law of nature. That's what Latin American bishops were doing when they formed base communities. They were trying to get peasants to recognize that you can take your fate into your own hands. That's what the civil-rights movement did here. That's what the women's movement did.

  Noam Chomsky

  Spiritual, Latin, Fate

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• No one who reads and reveres the New Testament should doubt for a second that the pious poor and marginalized have something to teach all of us - including German theologian-bishops - about the truth of the Gospel and the mysteries of the Kingdom of God.

  George Weigel

  Doubt, Kingdoms, Mystery

  Source: eppc.org

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• The better sort of Ishmaelites have been Christian for many centuries and will not publicly eat human flesh uncooked in Lent, without special and costly dispensation from their bishop.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Christian, Special, Atheism

  Evelyn Waugh (1964). “Scoop: a novel”

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• I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.

  Alice Meynell

  Light, Sound, Boots

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.225, eBookIt.com

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• When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport.

  Ashot Nadanian

  Beautiful, Sports, Art

  S'pore Chess News, September 07, 2010.

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