The Church Quotes
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.
Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering it's purpose.
A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church.
The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.
The problem with most American churches is that they teach too much and don't do enough.
We adore Thee most holy Lord Jesus Christ, here in all Thy Churches, which are in the whole world, because by Thy holy cross, Thou hast redeemed the world
So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.
People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.
To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.
Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.
It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.
Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.
Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.
The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.
Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among us. They are 'societies' of Jesus.
I encourage you to seek the help of the Savior to resist temptation and to refrain from behavior that would cause you to have to repent or to have your Church membership called into question.
Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.
Yes, He is ris'n who is the First and Last; Who was and is; who liveth and was dead; Beyond the reach of death He now has pass 'd, Of the one glorious Church the glorious Head.
We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.
I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.
The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to church were often deeply Christian.
That's just my family's mentality. We are a very loving, hugging and kissing kind of family. And we grew up in a church atmosphere and still have that atmosphere. There is no negativity.
A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
Proclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church.
Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.
Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and the audience to whom those people wrote.
Clea and I were touring one of the cathedrals in Italy, and in front of the whole tour I go 'That's so cute! Look, they have birdbaths in the church!
Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.
In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional for a student in school to even see a copy of the Ten Commandments.
I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!
In the Church the transformative power of the Eucharist is experienced through the dignified celebration of Holy Mass, and people are empowered for mission because of that.
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?
The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood.
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
