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I look upon the whole world as my parish.
John Wesley / Theologian
Parish
Whole
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Without argument the species would parish.
Gerry Spence / Lawyer
Argument
Parish
Species
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Till there is the Sun, shall not dew parish
Aftab Alam /
Dew
Parish
Sun
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I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.
Martin Scorsese / Film Director
Ordinary
Parish
Priests
Wanted
Priest
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I am very much looking forward to being a parish priest.
David Hope, Baron Hope Of Thornes /
Looking Forward
Parish
I Am Looking Forward Looking
Priest
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My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Brother
County
Parish
School
Brothers
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I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.
Justin Welby / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Parish
Acute
Priest
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The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.
Gilbert White /
Parish
District
Vast
Forest
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The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
John Selden /
Made
Parish
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Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.
Gilbert White /
Numbers
Parish
Summer
Verge
Breed
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Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.
Denis Mcdonough /
Afternoon
Community
Familiar
Parish
Sunday
Territory
Center
Familiar Territory
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My parish priest regularly rebuilt me in counseling sessions with remarkable and simple advice.
Michael Caputo /
Counseling
Parish
Remarkable
Priest
Rebuilt
Regularly
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If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
Glenn Beck / Radio Host
Bishops
Justice
Parish
Pushing
Social Justice
Alert
Bishop
Priest
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The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.
Gilbert White /
Hills
Parish
Woods
Abrupt
Therefore
Uneven
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I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.
Paul Ryan / United States Representative
Baptized
Block
Grew Up
Kind
Parish
Belong
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Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.
John Polkinghorne / Physicist
Bristol
Class
Five
Parish
Village
Years
Curate
Large
Priest
Vicar
Yes
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Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I had a way with words.
Ron Shock /
Parish
Prison
Me Words Way
Editor
Fortunately
Unfortunately
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I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I believe to be the call of God.
David Hope, Baron Hope Of Thornes /
Ministry
Parish
God Believe I Believe
God Always Believe
Begun
God Believe Always
Conclude
Hoped
Priest
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The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.
Richard Morris /
Parish
Pastor
Walks
Director
Chant
Door
Hire
Music Director
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Just as every animal is part of a kingdom, phylum, class, and order, every Dorchester resident has a parish, school, park, and neighborhood that they identify with.
Ayanna Pressley /
Neighborhood
Parish
Identify
Resident
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You were part of a parish life. It was a great community to grow up in. I just was impressed by our parish priests. After a while, I began to think maybe I could do that.
Donald Wuerl /
Impressed
Parish
Priests
Grow Up
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I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.
Andrew Greeley / Priest
Parish
Responsibility
World
Writing
Readers
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I spent the summers of 1984 and 1985 as an associate pastor at Dolores Mission Church, the poorest parish in the Los Angeles archdiocese. In 1986, I became pastor of the church.
Greg Boyle / Priest
Los Angeles
Parish
Pastor
Poorest
Angeles
Associate
Mission
Los
Summers
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It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.
Pope Benedict Xvi /
Experience
Trust
Generosity
Parish
Addition
Itself
Him
Priest
Weaknesses
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In the church I am very accountable, to the parish and the deanery; in the media thing I am not really accountable, I am out there on my own as a sort of busy, recognised religious person.
Richard Coles /
Parish
Religious Person
Accountable
Recognised
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
Sabine Baring-Gould /
County
Discomfort
Parish
Unrest
Vacancy
Time Family Will
Drawn
Mouth
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I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.
Fiona Shaw / Actress
Choir
Crucifixion
Halfway
Mary
Mother
Order
Parish
Singing
Stage
Aside
Event
Front
Saw
Occasion
Role
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We live across the street from our Roman Catholic parish, 39 steps away from the holy water, so close that the church bells mark every moment of our day. We wake up to the pealing, we pause several times a day to hear the beautiful songs ring out.
Michael Caputo /
Bells
Catholic
Holy
Parish
Roman Catholic
Steps
Pause
Roman
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I remember in one parish a terrible row over the ideal size of mince pies, and in another two great ladies dashing trays of pancakes to the vicarage floor in a controversy over whether to roll or to fold. But the real arena for food combat is television.
Richard Coles /
Arena
Combat
Controversy
Pancakes
Parish
Floor
Fold
Ideal
Ladies
Mince
Row
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
Hannah Kent / Writer
Archives
Funding
Iceland
Maps
Museums
Parish
Applied
Weeks
Embark
Happily
Histories
Libraries
Log
Ministerial
Overseas
Trip
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At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that's where we need to be engaging our people much more in understanding the Word of God... the Word of God reflected in the traditional teaching of the church, the Word of God reflected in the scriptures, is as much a part of their lives as anything else.
Donald Wuerl /
Church
Engaging
Parish
Traditional
Understanding
Anything Else
Breathes
Our People
Reflected
Scriptures
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Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
Lady Gregory / Dramatist
Bible
Book
Childhood
Lessons
Parish
Printed
Teaching
Eager
Irish
Scholars
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