The Church Quotes

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

We also try to reach out to people who are far away, via digital means, the web and brief messaging.

The 'Church' is ... catholic because her communion embraces the whole human race.

Open your hearts to the Lord. The Lord is waiting for you and the Church will welcome you if your willingness to serve good is as clear and public as your choice to serve evil was.

We see that there are two worms that eat the fabric of the Church, weakening Her. Rivalry and vainglory go against this harmony, this agreement.

God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways that surpass our calculations and ways of thinking.

First, we can pray in communion with the Church on earth and in heaven. Let us not underestimate the power of so many voices united in prayer!

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of the church.

We Christians identify Christ with the sun, and the moon with the Church, the community of the faithful. No one, save Jesus Christ, possesses his or her own light.

The Church is the home that accepts everyone and refuses no one ... the greater the sin, the greater the love that the Church should show towards those who convert.

It is important to integrate immigrants into society and to welcome them in the church community

It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself.

The church does not need apologists of its causes nor crusaders of its battles, but sowers humble and confident of the truth, who ... trust of its power

I would like a more missionary church,Not so much a tranquil church, but a beautiful church that goes forward.

The Church of Rome, the Pope has always said, 'Seek peace.'

I tell priests to flee from clericalism because clericalism distances people. May they flee from clericalism and I add: it's a plague in the Church.

Integrating in the Church doesn't mean receiving communion.

10 days before the death of St. John Paul II, in that Via Crucis of Holy Friday, Joseph Ratzinger said to the whole Church that it needed to clean up the dirt of the Church.

There is nothing the Church can do except try to educate people to become good consumers.

The Church's teaching on ownership diverges radically from collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and "rigid" capitalism. The primacy of the person over things joint ownership of the means of work.

No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.

I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

Church was a requirement, there was no choice in the matter, so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.

I never went to church as a child. I did not .

I started singing at the age of 4, at my grandfather's church in McKinney, Texas. It was called Greater Hope Holiness Church. My first solo was "Jesus Loves Me."

What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.

You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.

Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today.

That is the great contribution of Reformed thinking to the Christian church: theology for a life well-lived.

Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.

It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.

Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it.

The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.

My people worship, but not in a church. They worship the beauty of existence.

Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church.

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

An action of God may be the only thing that can save the Church today.

I'm a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and they will buy every CD that I have released, but they don't me just to bring the instruments much into the church.

I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

Should it be prohibited for private entities such as a church, bed and breakfast or retirement neighborhood that doesn't want noisy children? Absolutely not.

I was in church a little bit as a very young kid, but, as they say in the South, 'it didnt take.' None of it took with me.

Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.

Whenever a church does anything for its own group, it has that right.

The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.

I do think in the present state of both the Church and society we have a long way to go toward accepting and loving others that look or act differently than we do.

The theater is the 'church' and when I'm on that stage I am the Priest/Pastor, it is a pure spiritual journey for me.