Rob Sheffield Quotes

When I was a young priest in the 1960s and 1970s, there was much experimentation and confusion in the Church. Teachers and clergy were encouraged to communicate an experience of God's love, but to do it without reference to the Creed, the sacraments, or the tradition.

I was raised Catholic at a time when Vatican II was just taking hold.

We need a pope to oversee not simply a modernization of the church but its total transformation.

There was only one decline in church attendance, and that was in the late 1960s when the Vatican said it was not a sin to miss Mass. They said Catholics could act like Protestants, and so they did.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.

Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation.

BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.

Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.

I hear around me reformers who want to dismantle the Holy Sanctuary, destroy the universal flame of the Church, to discard all her adornments, and smite her with remorse for her historic past.

The church needs a pope who can call us to conversion and lead us to take seriously what Jesus did.

A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.

At the beginning, everything's possible and everybody gets equal time, all the characters, all the ideas. You don't know who's going to be the main characters; they're all fighting it out. It's like kind of the best time in a way.

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.

Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

The best time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.'

Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.

St. Pope John XXIII called for the Second Vatican Council because he understood, as no Holy Father had in a long time, religion spoke to and found its language and symbols - its entire sense of the sacramental nature of existence - in the imagination that reveals not just the penalties of living, but the wonder and awe of our existence.

The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.

The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.