The Church Quotes
I feel like the Church should have the most amazing entertainment and the best music, because we know the author and the source of music and entertainment, which is our Father.
Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'
It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.
If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
While I have no problem with the church adapting to the culture, we must ensure that we remain painstakingly true to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that we remain obedient servants to His truths.
The church has historically been very slow to embrace technology. Until very recently, their idea of a laptop was an altar boy.
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
Today too, as at her origins, the Church... cries out:“Veni, Sancte Spiritus! Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in them the fire of your love!” Amen.
The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.
The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.
The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.
Since the baptismal rebirth takes place only with the one Bride of Christ, where could he be born who is not a son of the Church?
When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right.
We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.
The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it’s dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in check.
... together we can build the people's Church, a true Church. Not just a hierarchy, or a building, but a real change inside people.
Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
Some people prefer not to commingle the functional, lambda-calculus part of a language with the parts that do side effects. It seems they believe in the separation of Church and state.
It takes more than a busy church, a friendly church, or even an evangelical church to impact a community for Christ. It must be a church ablaze, led by leaders who are ablaze for God.
There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.
Pastors started killing their church members and church members killed pastors. Husbands killed wives. It's a situation no one can describe.
When God measures a church, He begins with its depth not its breadth, with its substance not its style.
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.
The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.
It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or the Church and Kingdom of God.
He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman.
The Church therefore has one inescapable task: To lift up Christ. When she seeks to lift herself up she becomes weak, but when she acknowledges her own weakness and proclaims her Lord, she is strong.
I will fight to the death for one's right to be able to practice in their temple, their mosque, or in their church, even if they have a different belief than I do.
However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.
Until the church is holy there'll be no rapture - I don't care what theory of the rapture you have.
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
Growing up in the church in West Virginia, faith is always there. It's part of the fabric of the culture.
In the normal life of an actor or director, running around, there's not much time to go to church. But there's other ways to be spiritual, too.
The church is always more than a school. But the church cannot be less than a school.
We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world.
The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.
My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptist, and when I got old enough to say I didn't want to go to church, she didn't force me. She was cool.
I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.
I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.