“Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.”
Lenny Bruce
“I remember in Gozo villagers used to say one should have three altars: the Church, the word of God and the matrimonial bed. That showed there was no separation between the physical and the spiritual”
Father Mark Montebello
“It’s a pontifex, a bridge to the skies, in fact the Pope himself is called Pontifex Maximus”
“This Greek idea of dualism is the problem deep down, this thing of having the spiritual on one side and the profane on the other. We are still grappling with this. Spirituality is a plus, sexuality a minus”
“The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.Our attention would have been on God.”
C.S. Lewis
“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 bet”
Mark Twain
“Where's the church, who took the steeple, Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God's honest truth is, it's not that simple”
Jimmy Buffett