Erin O'Toole Quotes

Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

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.

The Holy Ghost will testify to our hearts, and the hearts of those gathered around with us, what He would have us do. And it is by keeping His commandments that we can have our hearts knit together as one.

I don't know any institution in this country that... carries more influence than the church.

As a Christian, I think it's really important to find a man of God to trust and be supportive of me.

Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!

I am very much looking forward to being a parish priest.

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

The Church is the safe place to be. I can safely believe everything the Church teaches. It will not harm me, and in fact it will equip me to grow and grow and have a better and better ability to experience that direct presence.

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.

The highest service that men may attain to on earth is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore, God more directly demands it of them.

Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

As you see the clergy to come nearer the alter than others, so remember, that in all places convenient, to give them greater honour; that the Mediator of God and man may establish you on a kingly throne.

I am a priest, I am a priest; you will not slay me!

Prophets have no other purpose, no other mission except to serve God.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.