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• Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.

  Stockwell Day

  Sex, Biblical, Rights

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• I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.

  Rowan Williams

  Jesus, Names, Perspective

  "New archbishop issues warning on Iraq" by Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2002.

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• We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

  Pope Clement I

  God, Christian, Letting Go

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• A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Religion, Deep Thought

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.106, Letcetera Publishing

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• I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life.
  The primary reason the old idea of rescuing the fallen is no good is that there never was a time when we fell from perfection into sin.

  John Shelby Spong

  Life, Religious, Jesus

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.

  Ambrose

  Faith, Inspiration, Evil

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• My desire is to live more to God to-day than yesterday, and to be more holy this hour than the last.

  Francis Asbury

  God, Christian, Religious

  "Journal of Rev. Francis Asbury: Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church".

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• Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

  Albertus Magnus

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  "Discovering the cosmos". Book by R.C. Bless, p. 686, 1996.

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• We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.

  Francis Asbury

  Religious, Jesus, Work

  Francis Asbury (1821). “The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church: From August 7, 1771, to December 7, 1815”, p.231

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• From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.

  Pope Francis

  Love, God, Christian

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• We cannot be part-time Christians! We should seek to live our faith at every moment of every day.

  Pope Francis

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.

  Pope Francis

  Sympathy, Christian, Religious

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• If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the endall this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions.

  J. C. Ryle

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  "Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark".

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• Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

  John Ruskin

  Power, Light, Evil

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.300, University of Virginia Press

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• The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

  Philip Roth

  Work, Writing, Sisterhood

  1979 In the NewYorkTimes Book Review,15 Jul.

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• You can tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize they are wasting their time. A bishop will die, but the church of God, which is the people, will never perish.

  Oscar Romero

  People, Forgiving, Church

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• In blitz, the Knight is stronger than the Bishop

  Vlastimil Hort

  Knights, Stronger, Chess

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• Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops

  Brennan Manning

  Important, Influential, Theologian

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.61, Multnomah

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• The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion with the Orthodox Churches.

  Pope Francis

  Rome, Catholic, Church

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• That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Faces, Saws

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

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• Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Catholic, Church, Catholic Church

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• Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Inspiration, Obligation, Inherent

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• When his phone rang, he had to dig through his pocket to find it, and his fingers brushed against a pair of tiny earbuds he and Kat had last used in Monte Carlo. Hale smiled a little, realizing he hadn’t worn the tux in ages. It was just one of many ways his life had change in the years since a girl named Katarina Bishop crawled into his window and into his life." — Double Crossed by Ally Carter

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Phones, Years

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• God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

  Pope Francis

  Strength, God, Christian

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Eye, Spy, Peers

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.231

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