Words of wisdom from Father
Dwyer...
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This
church is not a hotel for Saints. It is a hospital for
sinners.
CHRIST under the steeple and out among the
people.
How many, when in church, will take communion and say "GOD
bless you", and the minute they leave the church they go
back to their
old ways and not speak to one another?
GOD'S church has the authority and
that is the difference between churches.
You cannot have CHRIST without a
church. There is no
churchless CHRIST. It would be like a headless
body.
We didn't install air conditioning in the Church to keep
everyone comfortable but to eliminate distractions to keep
us focused on
CHRIST.
The model of hypocracy: The father who sends his children to
church
while he stays home.
HER SON resides in our Church.
Some
people gradually lose interest in going to church and like an air-
plane
propeller when the engine is shut off, they slow down and stop.
Some
won't go to church because they say they had a row with the priest.
The
Catholic Church has two heads. The invisible head of the church is CHRIST, the
visible head is the Pope.
In a wedding, the only thing they wear going
out of the church that they
didn't wear coming in, are the rings.
The
Church escaped the hungry teeth of time, the Roman Empire, and
the
reformation.
The Church was in existance for 60 years before all
the books of the
Bible were written.
The Church did not come out of
the Bible, the Bible came out of the
Church.
A man told once me, "I
don't go to Mass because there are too many
hypocrites there." I said, "At
least the hypocrites are there in church."
The home is the teacher, not
the Church or the school.
If, next Sunday, I would offer everyone a
thousand dollars to come to
church, all of Colfax could not hold all the
people that would come.
(The crowd would come for money, not for
GOD)
The Church cannot hide itself.
When someone says, 'I want
Christ, but I do not want the Church', isn't
that nonsense?
They burn
the churches but they are only burning buildings, for the
church is the
people.
The Church is the mother of the Bible. The Bible is not the
mother
of the Church.
If you take away the priest, the pulpit is
silent, the tabernacle is
empty, the altar is a relic of the past, the Holy
Eucharist ceases to
exist, there is no Church.
The ship of the Church
(Barque of St. Peter) will survive because Jesus
Christ is
aboard.
There are three great societies, the family, the Church, and the
state.
The family is the foundation of the Church.
The Church is
not a dead leaf pressed between the pages of history.
There is no end to
GOD and no end to His Church.
The Church escaped through the hungry teeth
of time.
We have no Jesus without the Church. There is no headless
body.
The vineyard is the Church. Christ is the vine.
Mary at the
foot of the cross suffered as a woman giving birth to the
Church.
Today we have a feel good theology. They want success without
struggle.
They want sensationalism with no substance. They want a Christ with
no
cross. They want Christ with no Church. They want a plastic Jesus.
Compiled by Bob
Stanley
March 13, 2008
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