The predictions of things to come relate to the state of the Church in all ages…
Your Holy Church is a strumpet; she sells her favors to the rich.[Ton Église est une putain : elle vend ses faveurs aux riches.]
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
The True Church can never fail for it is based upon a rock.
The Church must be forever building, and always decaying, and always being restored.
The church is precisely that against which Jesus inveighed – and against which He taught His disciples to fight.[Die Kirche ist exakt das, wogegen Jesus gepredigt hat – und wogegen er seine Jünger kämpfen lehrte.]
The Church is one of the great ironies of our history.
The church domesticated medieval Europe by means of its system of confession and penance.[Die Kirche hat mit Hilfe ihrer Buß- und Beichtordnung das mittelalterliche Europa domestiziert.]
The Catholic Church is a weird church; much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – I keep it, staying at Home – With a Bobolink for a Chorister – And an Orchard, for a Dome –
People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
