Church Suffering

Famous quotes containing the words church and/or suffering:

“This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and No.”
—Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)

“What can be said,
Except that suffering is exact, but where
Desire takes charge, readings will grow erratic?”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1985)