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Parish me no parishes. -- George Peele
The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish. -- John Selden
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
I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish. -- Rick Yancey
And in more than half the pictures, she isn't looking at the camera; she's looking at him. Not the way I would look at Ben Parish, all squishy around the eyes. She looks at Evan fiercely, like, This here? It's mine -- Rick Yancey
Asked if he knew how important Stardust would be, Mitchell Parish said he did have a gut feeling that this was a momentous one. But had no idea it would become a standard. You don't sit down and write a standard, he explained. A standard evolves. -- Paul Zollo
I look upon the whole world as my parish. -- John Wesley
I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest. -- Martin Scorsese
I am very much looking forward to being a parish priest. -- David Hope
My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county. -- Catherine Helen Spence
The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district. -- Gilbert White
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish. -- Gilbert White
I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest. -- Justin Welby
Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me. -- Denis McDonough
If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop. -- Glenn Beck
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds. -- Gilbert White
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Without argument the species would parish. -- Gerry Spence
I look upon all the world as my parish. -- John Wesley
Till there is the Sun, shall not dew parish -- Aftab Alam
As long as men die, liberty will never parish. -- Charlie Chaplin
The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service. -- Robert Southey
A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish. -- Vincent de Paul
If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish -- John Keble
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors. -- Michael D. Higgins
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. -- George Santayana
But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk! -- John Heywood
If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour. -- Thomas Malthus
There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America. -- Thomas Jefferson
As worthless as guilt was known to be, he couldn't help feeling it, seeing his wife work herself to exhaustion for a parish tea that would last only two hours. -- Jan Karon
The parish is the presence of the Church in any given territory, an environment for hearing God's word, for growth in Christian life, for dialogue, proclamation, charitable outreach, worship and celebration. -- Pope Francis
As a parish priest of the Church Of England I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians. -- Alan Green
Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting. -- Hortense Calisher

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