I think Margaret Thatcher started it, the greed thing, people just wanting more and more. And we’ve lost our morals to some extent. And the church has weakened. People don’t believe in anything apart from money and success.
Church Quotes
I have had great responsibilities in the Catholic Church. All the greater is my pain for the abuses and the errors that occurred in those different places during the time of my mandate.
It’s hard to embrace something that doesn’t embrace you.
He who is near the church is often far from God.
Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.
One should not go into church if one wants to breathe pure air.
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
The difference between going to church and a baseball game is that at church, you sing out “Stand Up for Jesus,” while at a baseball game you shout “Siddown, for Chrissakes!”
Discovering the Church is apt to be a slow procedure but it can take place if you have a free mind and no vested interest in disbelief.
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.