“One of the most disruptive forces in the Church is arrogance. It is natural for people to bring their pride to Church, and try to prove their own greatness to others. This is an urge we need to constantly be fighting” PeopleNeedsTryingFightingForceNaturalChurchGreatnessPrideProveArroganceUrgesDisruptive Author:Dan Schilling
“Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.” ShouldMindStatesOrderNaturalChurchAtheismPoliceRegardPositive AtheismChurch And State Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian. It is not to keep Sunday idle; to attend meetings; to be wet with water; to read the Bible; to offer prayers in words; to take bread and wine in the meeting house; love a scape-goat Jesus, or any other theological clap-trap.” BelieveHouseJesusWaterNaturalChurchPrayerAtheismOffersCatholicWineMeetingsPositive AtheismBreadSundayWetCreedsTrapsIdleJoiningTheologicalProtestantsGoatsManlyHebrewUnitarianBread And WineScapes Author:Theodore Parker
“We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's a punch in the belly to see what has happened in the church and the world. Dualistic thinking seems to have taken over the church and our politics to a really neurotic degree.” ThinkingWorldSeemsGrowsNaturalChurchGrowing UpTakenHappenedDegreesCatholicHopefulPriestsOptimistBellyNeuroticVatican Ii Author:Richard Rohr
“No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.” LawNaturalChurchMoralMembersDenyFaithfulCompetentMoral Law Author:Pope Paul VI