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Joachim Meisner Quotes

1933–2017 Germany

Joachim Meisner (25 December 1933 – 5 July 2017) was a German cardinal of the Catholic Church.

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Confession rather allows us access to a life where one can think of nothing but God.

God's wonders never happen in the spotlight of world history.

A man's wounded heart can only heal if it can bleed to the end, that is, if it can vent completely.

The purpose of confession is not that we, forgetting sins, no longer think of God.

A priest who does not frequently sit on either side of the confessional grate suffers permanent damage to his soul and his mission.

We must become a "Church that meets men" again.

A confessional with a priest present in an empty church is the most touching symbol of God's patience that awaits.

Where the priest is no longer a confessor, he becomes a religious social worker.

It belongs to God's strategy to achieve great effects by small means.

Probably the greatest confessor of the Church is the saint Curate of Ars.

In the confessional the priest can penetrate the hearts of many people and from this comes impulses, encouragement and inspiration for his own following of Christ.

One of the most tragic failures the Church suffered in the second half of the 20th century is its neglect of the gift of the Holy Spirit in the sacrament of penance.

The greatest grace is being pardoned.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joachim Meisner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.