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Quotes about religion
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Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time (full) of joyful hope and profound gratitude. (Cusack Cyril)
Unspontaneity is of their essence. In these rites I discover that something is approaching me here that I did not produce myself, that I am entering into something greater than myself, which ultimately derives from divine revelation. This is why the Christian East calls the liturgy the ‘Divine Liturgy’, expressing thereby the liturgy’s independence from human control (Cusack Cyril)
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one’s own ego and one’s own desires… The church needs to withstand the tides of trends and the latest novelties…. We must become mature in this adult faith, we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith. (Cusack Cyril)
We can be sure our beloved pope is standing today at the window of the father’s house, that he sees us and blesses us. (Cusack Cyril)
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Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation. (Cusack Cyril)
- There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church. (Cusack Cyril)
- The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to avoid this is for the priest to be instant in prayer. If he is not, he will lose that touch of the supernatural, without which he has no right to be a priest at all. (Cusack Cyril)
- A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart in which people find God’s consolation, understanding and love. (Cusack Cyril)
- In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us a reality, the medicine that cures our souls. (Cusack Cyril)
- Times have changed since George Herbert… but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests. (Cusack Cyril)
- Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry. (Cusack Cyril)
- Herbert’s life integrated prayer, study, teaching and pastoral care, embodying his understanding of the priest as a man of God, a teacher and pastor. (Cusack Cyril)
- The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application. (Cusack Cyril)
- The priest is Christ’s slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom. (Cusack Cyril)
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. (Cusack Cyril)
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness. (Cusack Cyril)
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth. (Cusack Cyril)
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. (Cusack Cyril)
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. (Cusack Cyril)
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. (Cusack Cyril)
The Gentiles used to wonder at us because we cared so much about religious things about food and Sabbath and teaching the children Hebrew. (Cusack Cyril)
How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity. (Cusack Cyril)
But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out. (Cusack Cyril)
I think that rather than condemning Islam, Islam needs to be studied by those who are sincere. (Cusack Cyril)
Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion. (Cusack Cyril)
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