Quotes About Church

Govorom o anonimnome krš?anstvu Rahner je nastojao posredovati osje?aj za Božju širinu i za crkvenu usko?u.

Odakle dolazi dojam da je Crkva lakše izlazila na kraj s krivcima-po?initeljima negoli s nedužnim žrtvama? Nije li naša kristologija toliko pretjerano determinirana soteriološki da više niti ne dopušta teodicejsko pitanje (na koje se niti može dati odgovor niti ga se može zaboraviti)?

The first tugs towards prohibition were about power, and purity of belief. If you are going to have one God and one Church, you need to stop experiences that make people feel that they can approach God on their own.

I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.

The Church is blessed with a good stomach, has gobbled down whole countries even, yet never suffered from repletion; only the Church is able to digest treasures of wickedness, dear ladies.

The Church has an excellent appetite. She has swallowed whole countries and the question Has never risen of indigestion. Only the Church . . . can take Ill-gotten goods without stomach-ache!

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 purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,' or 'FFC.

The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.

There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor a ceremonial, but a life vitaly connected with a loving Christ.

Home Run portrays the church in its beauty--true life transformation through real and honest relationships with one another and with Jesus.

The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".

I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.

It is Peter himself that He says, 'You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.' Where Peter is, there is the Church. And where the Church, no death is there, but life eternal.

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village — the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!

Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes.

the Church can have unity or she can have good relations with the Jews, but she can't have both. In opting for good relations with the Jews, the Church has destroyed Catholic unity and with it any ability the Church might have had to influence the world culture positively.

The desecration of this monument is symbolic of the current state of the Church in Argentina and the decline it has endured since the era of Catholic self-confidence when it was built.

As anyone who is familiar with cows know, a thirsty calf often gets a kick if it gets too aggressive. This was Caponnetto's fate, as well as the fate of those Catholics who objected to the "explicit and disastrous judaization of the Church

In the West, it may help if the church started thinking more in terms of we than me.

Being family gave you obligations. Jesus and Paul's language about church as family was radical talk and not merely cultural convention.

If we're not careful, our individualistic assumptions about church can lead us to think of the church as something like a health club. We're members because we believe in the mission statement and want to be a part of the action. As long as the church provides the services I want, I'll stick around. But when I no longer approve of the vision, or am no longer "being fed," I'm out the door.

Associating with Christ but not his church is a distinction Jesus would never have made.

So why go to church? Why worship with a group? Because, in some way we may not fully understand, the Spirit indwells the group in a way the Spirit does not indwell the individual. We are all built together to become one, whole building: a single dwelling for his Spirit. Like it or not, we need each other. As Rodney Reeves noted, "I cannot worship God by myself.