“I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.” PeopleSpiritualDesireUnderstandingEmotionalLongingExpertsPriestsAttachmentRabbi Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf
“It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehensibility of that suffering in what it does to those who suffer. The priest shares in these struggles of his suffering people, the uncertainties it brings, the sense of divine abandonment it induces, and the loneliness caused.” PeopleDoeSpiritualSufferingStruggleShareLonelinessDivineUncertaintyFrustrationPriestsWarfareAbandonmentSpiritual Warfare Author:Arthur Middleton
“During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into the lowest publications. ... Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature's spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests.” LittlesEyeLastsSpiritualUsedGirlLiteratureResultsRichCenturyAuthorityFunctionGuidancePriestsVillageQuartersPossessedCreamLowestNo PointContinuityPublicationAdvertisementsBreachUsurpationSpiritual GuidanceQuarter Of A Century Author:Simone Weil
“You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and on the other: You are obscurantist ignoramuses who'd like to shut down progress and drag us all back to the 16th century, with kings and priests telling us what to think.” ThinkingSpiritualMoralProgressCenturyEvolutionKingsCivilizationFoundationDeterminedPriestsDragConsolationBrutesInhuman Author:John Derbyshire
“A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.” SpiritualLife IsAnswersPriestsSpiritual LifeQuestions And AnswersSummary Author:Naguib Mahfouz
“Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.” PeopleThinkingLittlesHas BeensSpiritualLevelsMoralTransformationCatholicAssumingCuriosityDisappointmentPriestsSpiritual TransformationMethodistsLutherans Author:Richard Rohr
“To be a great teacher, you can't simply be looking at how to earn your income. And with a priest or spiritual leader - there's another relationship that makes those lives what they are. And in each of these cases you'll find elements of gift exchange thriving, and you'll also find a tension around it.” SpiritualLeaderCasesTeacherElementsIncomeTensionPriestsGreat TeacherSpiritual Leader Author:Lewis Hyde
“The theater is the 'church' and when I'm on that stage I am the Priest/Pastor, it is a pure spiritual journey for me.” SpiritualChurchJourneyStagePureTheaterPriestsPastorSpiritual Journey Author:Richard Cabral