Universal Church Quotes

“A local congregation, a parish, is our small, concrete entry into the universal church. It is the basic unit of Christian community and the place where we encounter God in Word and sacrament. The body of Christ—ancient, global, catholic—is only known, loved, and served through the gritty reality of our local context.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

“In all groups and assemblies of men there are good and there are bad men. It is unprofitable to generalize. There are good Russians and bad Russians just as there are good Germans and bad Germans and good Englishmen and bad Englishmen. I mean that the distribution of what Reverend Mother Auxilia would call the grace of God cannot be charted geographically.”
― Bruce Marshall, Vespers in Vienna

“There's only one heaven.
And it is open to all -
because our religion stands
for boundless humanity.”
― Laura Chouette