Quotes about church
church doctrine testing
Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation, Karl Barth
church criticism repetitive
Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it. Karl Barth
church inheritance concerts
Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall? Ralph Vaughan Williams
church instruments harm
I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself. Ralph Stanley
church preacher heard
I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more. Ralph Waldo Emerson
church true-religion multitudes
The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion. Ralph Waldo Emerson
church looks sanctuary
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! Ralph Waldo Emerson
church-bells blood slavery
If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
church might sermons
Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go. Ralph Waldo Emerson
church way life-is
I don't go to church so much, the way my life is, but it's in me every day. Lenny Kravitz
church taught sin
I always had a problem with original sin; I always had a problem with the exclusivity of the church and a lot of the things that the nuns taught me. Susan Sarandon
church doe add
The Church of Christ, zealous and cautious guardian of the dogmas deposited with it, never changes any phase of them. It does not diminish them or add to them; it neither trims what seems necessary now grafts things superfluous . . . but it devotes all its diligence to one aim: To treat tradition faithfully and wisely; to consolidate and to strengthen what already was clear; and to guard what already was confirmed and defined. St. Vincent
church doe enough
I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher. Rutherford B. Hayes
church stage streets
I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage. Ruth Brown
church firsts solo
My first solo was in church when I was five. Suzy Bogguss
church speech way
I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries, and if the pope continues this way, I will go back to praying and go back to the church, and I'm not joking, Raul Castro
church-growth way strategy
Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way. Stanley Hauerwas
church strategy social
The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy. Stanley Hauerwas
church tears shed
More tears are shed in playhouses than in churches. Thomas Guthrie
church deals catholicism
She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. Thomas B. Macaulay
church literature world
And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s. Thomas Keneally
church doctrine should
A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life. Thomas Brooks
church four remember
I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot. Victoria Jackson
church worship amen
When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God really. You're doing it for yourself, because that's what makes God happy. Amen? Victoria Osteen
church christianity institutions
The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it. William Tyndale
church spirituality priests
Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality. Wes Bentley
church copernicus
It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus. Tycho Brahe
church today helping
Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. William Ames
church half speak
The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. William Ralph Inge
church authority higher
In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority. Wilhelm Ostwald
church needs capacity
A church will never grow beyond its capacity to meet needs. Rick Warren
church too-much problem
The problem with most American churches is that they teach too much and don't do enough. Rick Warren
church purpose discouraged
Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering it's purpose. Rick Warren