Arthur Middleton Quotes

We don't want advisers to advisers to advisers who have never done the job-we want priests like this, and if the vacant parishes of England could be filled with such priests, the Church's mission would go forward overnight. - Arthur Middleton

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is. - Arthur Middleton

Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests. - Arthur Middleton

There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion. - Arthur Middleton

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church. - Arthur Middleton

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application. - Arthur Middleton

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom. - Arthur Middleton

The priest comes... not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word and Sacrament that which is humanity's hope and salvation, the divine energy in which he lives with Christ in the Father through the Holy Spirit, identified but not accommodated to the world Christ seeks to save. - Arthur Middleton

The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments. - Arthur Middleton

The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to avoid this is for the priest to be instant in prayer. If he is not, he will lose that touch of the supernatural, without which he has no right to be a priest at all. - Arthur Middleton

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