“The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother's plea and answer it lovingly.” MenWorldAsksNationsChurchAnswersCuttingCryBrotherBlessedEvery ManHungryAbundance Author:Pope Paul VI
“The time has come for the Church to take up the joyful call to mercy once more. It is time to return to the basics and to bear the weaknesses and struggles of our brothers and sisters. Mercy is the force that reawakens us to new life and instils in us the courage to look to the future with hope.” LooksForceChurchStruggleBrotherReturnBearsWeaknessMercyJoyfulNew LifeBrothers And SistersBasicsLooking To The Future Author:Pope Francis
“The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.” EndsBodyCareFallChurchSacrificeChildhoodBrotherSaintDon't CareInsaneCommunismI Don't CareOrthodoxGrandfatherWillpowerFalling ApartMy GrandfatherWhatever It TakesEngravedPatriarchOrthodox Church Author:Marina Abramovic
“Says one brother to another, 'Joseph says all covenants are done away, and none are binding but the new covenants; now suppose Joseph should come and say he wanted your wife, what would you say to that? I would tell him to go to hell.' This was the spirit of many in the early days of this Church.” ShouldDoneWantedSpiritChurchHellWifeBrotherCovenantBindingPolygamyGo To Hell Author:Jedediah M. Grant
“Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such an union was due entirely to prejudice and the offspring of such union would be healthy and pure as any other. These were the decided views of Pres. Young when alive, for Bro. S. talked to him freely on this matter.” SaidMatterWould BeYoungChurchViewsAliveBrotherHealthyHorrorPureDecidedPrejudiceUnionsDuesSnowBrothers And SistersOffspringPolygamyBros Author:Abraham H. Cannon
“I didn't have an imaginary childhood friend, but I did one day imagine somehow tiny green men, and they were only tiny and green because my brother had a ton of toy soldier toys that came on a skateboard plank type of thing, and I just envisioned in this car driving to church with my mom, they were there.” MenChurchImagineChildhoodCarBrotherMomTypeOne DayGreenSoldierMy MomTinyDrivingMy BrotherImaginaryToysChildhood FriendCar DrivingToy Soldiers Author:Jim Parsons
“I don't know about being a Catholic anymore, though I had a great romance with the Church. But its male hierarchy causes me pain and distress. So I can't really pay too much attention. When that encyclical from the Pope - the one about contraception - began 'Dear Sons and Brothers' I figured it must be private mail and had nothing to do with me. So I didn't read it.” KnowsI CanPainRomanceReligionCausesChurchPayAttentionToo MuchSonBrotherCatholicMalesDearMailDistressPopeHierarchyContraceptionGreat Romance Author:Joan Hackett
“Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years ago as their best defense. When you have in front of you flesh and blood people who are your brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, co-workers and neighbors and they love each other and they just want to go through life with someone.” PeopleWantYearsTwoCultureChurchBloodFrontsBrotherThousandYears AgoLettersWorkersDefenseNeighborFleshThousand YearsUnclesIrrelevantBrothers And SistersAuntLove Each OtherYour BrotherFlesh And BloodCo WorkerAunts And UnclesChurch Bells Author:Rob Bell