“The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.” PeopleShouldSoulCareCommunityChurchPriestsPastorBishops Author:Pope Francis
“There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the function of universities and churches alike is to trim and tame enthusiasm, to suppress curiosity, and, in short, to whittle immortal souls into serviceable props of the established order.” SoulCareSpiritOrderImaginationChurchFunctionCuriosityUniversityIntellectEnthusiasmImmortalPriestsWho CaresPropsImmortal Soul Book:The progress of a biographer Source: The progress of a biographer
“Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to the interest of pontiffs, priests, and augurs, as much as it is to the interest of lawyers and doctors that there should be lawsuits and sickness. No wonder they took care that the people should not grow slack in their religion.” PeopleShouldCareUsedHeavenGrowsInterestWonderDoubtAtheismEffectsDoctorsMarkPositive AtheismLawyerSicknessPriestsWrathLawsuit Author:Pierre Bayle
“The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming their minds and manners aright; they use all possible methods to infuse, very early, into the tender and flexible minds of children, such opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their country, for when deep impressions of these things are made at that age, they follow men through the whole course of their lives, and conduce much to preserve the peace of the government, which suffers by nothing more than by vices that rise out of ill opinions.” MenMindChildrenMadeCountryWholeUseGovernmentCareAgeSufferingCoursesOpinionYouthLettersMethodIllVicesImpressionMannersPreservesPriestsFlexibleFollow Me Book:Utopia Source: Utopia