Arthur Middleton Quotes
"Many people experience Gethsemane moments."
- Arthur Middleton
(Related: Experience, People, Moments)
"Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry."
- Arthur Middleton
"Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself."
- Arthur Middleton
(Related: Church, Christ, Mission)
"The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process."
- Arthur Middleton
(Related: God, Church, Evolution, Spiritual, Supernatural)
"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
(Related: Life, Soul, Man, Medicine, Office)
"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
(Related: God, Death, Life, Christ, Freedom, Needs)
"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
(Related: Life, May, Principles, Today)
"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
(Related: Church, Doctrine, Thinking, Worship)
"There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion."
- Arthur Middleton
(Related: Religion, God, Country)
"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
(Related: Inspiration, Spirit)
"As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people."
- Arthur Middleton
(Related: Work, Love, People, Prayer)