The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The church has given me balance.
I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.
I always felt that church is where I'm going to find my community and people to live my life with.
Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.
I like the aesthetics of the Church.
I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.
Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.
I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love.
The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.
Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.
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