Elizabeth Cunningham Quotes

They had always been there, just hidden, sometimes, sadly, self-hating, but always there. The women, the church within the church, like Mary in the Sacristy, with their own secret rites. The thread wound back through a labyrinth, through thousands of years, into a ball, round and bright as the full moon.

Elizabeth Cunningham

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• Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • Life
  • Church
  • Failure

• The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Church
  • Lies
  • Old

• Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Together
  • Help
  • Moon

• When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Time
  • Question
  • Church

• It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Great
  • Death
  • Earth

• In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Church
  • Jews
  • Early

• Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • People
  • Church
  • Strange

• There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• The Taj is pinkish in the morning, milky white in the evening and golden when the moon shines. These changes, they say, depict the moods of woman.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Morning
  • Moon

• They dined on mince, and slices of quince,Which they ate with a runcible spoon;And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,They danced by the light of the moon,The moon,The moon,They danced by the light of the moon.

  

  Edward Lear
  • Light
  • Hand
  • Moon

• I think I speak not too strongly when I say that a church in the land without the Spirit of God is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember you stand in somebody else's way; you are a tree bearing no fruit, standing where another fruitful tree might grow.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • God
  • Remember
  • Church

• The tyranny alike of church and state has been curbed, and true power is now known to reside where forever it must remain - in the people.

  

  Louis Sullivan
  • People
  • Power
  • True

• I enjoy going to church.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Church

• Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • People
  • Church
  • Effort

• We were very old-fashioned. My preacher at church told me I could not go in to the movies because it would make me a 'wanton woman.'

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Church

• The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.

  

  Elaine Pagels
  • Church
  • Literature

• Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Church

• There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and that the people have a right to a substantive part in its discipline and government.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • People
  • Power
  • Church

• Work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Men

• I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.

  

  Tana French
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Change

• My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Bad

• So often we miss life’s beauty because we are preoccupied by its flaws.

  

  Ann Spangler
  • Life
  • Beauty
  • Flaws

• What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • High
  • You
  • Single

• They had always been there, just hidden, sometimes, sadly, self-hating, but always there. The women, the church within the church, like Mary in the Sacristy, with their own secret rites. The thread wound back through a labyrinth, through thousands of years, into a ball, round and bright as the full moon.

  

  Elizabeth Cunningham
  • Church
  • Moon
  • Secret