The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity. - George Pell

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

George Pell

The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.

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Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

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Suffering and evil will not have the last word.

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There's no possibility for vitality in the church without fidelity to the gospels. If you look at the Churches throughout the world, throughout the Western world, where radical reform has been attempted, the Church has collapsed and almost disappeared. The vitality in the Church, the young people who are here in their tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands possibly, young people who belong, who adhere strongly to the central tradition of Christ and the Church.

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Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

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Couples with children who do win a divorce, cause such social havoc that they should have to pay a special divorce tax.

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People seem to really enjoy laughing at me.

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When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.

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In the field of consciousness research-and also in physics and astronomy-we are breaking past the cause-and-effect, mechanistic way of interpreting things. In the biological sciences, there is a vitalism coming in that goes much further toward positing a common universal consciousness of which our brain is simply an organ. Consciousness does not come from the brain. The brain is an organ of consciousness. It focuses consciousness and pulls it in and directs it through a time and space field. But the antecedent of that is the universal consciousness of which we are all just a part.

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