Erzbischof Fulton Sheen über die Kirche

Ein paar schöne Zitate von Erzbischof Fulton Sheen (1895 - 1979) über die Kirche:

"The Church is not a continuous phenomenon through history. Rather, it is something that has been through a thousand resurrections after a thousand crucifixions. The bell is always sounding for its execution which, by some great power of God, is everlastingly postponed."
(aus Three to Get Married, Appleton-Century-Croft, New York, 1951, Seite 221)

"... it never suits the particular mood of any age, because it was made for all ages.
A Catholic knows that if the Church married the mood of any age in which it lived, it would be a widow in the next age. The mark of the true Church is that it will never get on well with the passing moods of the world: "I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. (John 15:19)."
(aus Love One Another, P. J. Kenedy and Sons, New York, 1944, Seite 149)

"It is not for the Church we have to fear, but for the world."
(aus Whence Come Wars, Sheed and Ward, New York, 1940, Seite 118)

Alle drei Zitate gefunden in The Quotable Fulton Sheen, Doubleday, New York, 1989