Quotes about church
church trying claims
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny. Philip Yancey
church poor
Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor. Pope Francis
church christ
You can't have Christ without the Church,
church mercy forgiven
Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.
church limits retreat
The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine as they are: Muslims, Hindus and so forth. The Church can never retreat comfortably to within the limits of her own environment. She is charged with universal solicitude; she must be concerned with and for one and all... We must... as the Lord says - go out ever anew 'to the highways and hedges' (Luke 14:23), to deliver God's invitation to his banquet also to those who have so far heard nothing or have not been stirred within. Pope Benedict XVI
church missionary tasks
The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and to promote his Gospel of peace and love in every environment and culture.
church moral should
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
church facts constitution
The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.
church democracy standards
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
church presbyterians
I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much. Joan Van Ark
church world salt
Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created. Ellen Hopkins
church want found
When I found out the heads of the Church were up to things that were not good. I left. I say, you know I don't want to be a part of that at all. Elisabeth Hasselbeck
church moved
A lot of churches have not moved with the times. Joel Osteen
church pastor reverends
I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.
church messages want
I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.
church christ assertion
Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church. Leo Tolstoy
church news television
News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state. Leslie Moonves
church kind salvation
Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation. Peter Thiel
church appearance steeples
Richard Hadlee has the appearance of a rickety church steeple and a severe manner which suggests that women are not likely to be ordained yet. Peter Roebuck
church thieves pope
Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church. Peter O'Toole
church partnership states
In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable. Madalyn Murray O'Hair
church world grows
If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world. Gilbert K. Chesterton
church states church-and-state
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church
church going-to-church looks
Do you look forward to going to church, or is it something you do out of obligation? Joyce Meyer
church-today people abuse
Since strict obedience is demanded and harshly enforced, only the least talented, least articulate, least nuanced thinkers, least likely to take a stand against abuse, and the least courageous people thrive in the Church today. Kate Kelly
church england would-be
If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish John Keble
church my-sister shows
Oh, there was a wedding all right. Did I mention that my sister didn't show up at the church either, Mr. Clayborne? Julie Garwood
church-service church backgrounds
the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon. Joyce Carol Oates
church identity reason
I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church. Julianna Baggott
church good-place
When I don't have to do out on tour I go to church. Church is a good place to be. Juicy J
church matter barbarians
Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who have understood more about theology than most professors. Nor is theology a private subject of study for pastors. Fortunately, there have repeatedly been congregation members, and often whole congregations, who have pursued theology energetically while their pastors were theological infants or barbarians. Theology is a matter for the Church. Karl Barth
church
Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.
church doctrine testing
Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation,