Quotes About Church

Saw a wedding in the church… and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

To church; and with my mourning, very handsome, and new periwig, make a great show.

I to church, and with my mourning, very handsome, and new periwigg, make a great shew.

Up and with my wife to church, where Mr. Mills made an unnecessary sermon on Original Sin, neither understood by himself, nor the people.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

It is our Lord's wisdom, that His kirk should ever hang by a thread; and yet the thread breaketh not, being hanged upon Him who is the sure Nail in David's house (Isa. xxii. 23), upon whom all the vessels, great and small, do hang; and the Nail (God be thanked) neither crooketh nor can be broken. Jesus,

As our dear Husband, in wooing his [church], received many a black stroke, so his bride, in wooing him, gets many blows, and in this wooing there are strokes upon both sides

He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?

I cannot think why we should be astonished at all the evils which exist in the Church, when those who ought to be models on which all may pattern their virtues are annulling the work wrought in the religious Orders by the spirit of the saints of old.

In my estimation, Moralistic Therapeutic Deism points to a colossal failure of the imagination regarding both the claims and demands of the gospel. The failure isn't primarily on the part of youth or even their parents: it's on the part of the church.

We've forgotten how to humbly interact with a story on its own terms; we've lost the ability to wonder, especially when it comes to stories of human encounters with divine power. So have our young people. As a church, how do we restore that sense of wonder? By restoring our sense of the Bible as story, both for us and for the youth we serve; and by surrendering to the work of the Holy Spirit in and through this text that is mysteriously more than text.

Somehow the church has forgotten what it knew for so long: story goes beyond simply illustrating some spiritual point or other; it gives form to content; it incarnates meaning.

When was the last time you heard a long passage from a novel read aloud during Sunday school or worship? Or how about the last time a youth pastor subverted his or her "talk" through satire or parable rather than proof texting the six main points? Yet

a story's plot has a beginning, middle, and end consisting of a sequence of events developed around a particular conflict or gradual unveiling. As far as worship-as-story is concerned, this guiding story arc has already been provided for us in the church calendar or liturgical year. It's not a plot we're creating from scratch.

When it all comes down, the church is the living story we're inviting young people to participate in. Again, to quote Robert Jenson: "If the church does not find her hearers antecedently inhabiting a narratable world, then the church must herself be that world.

In the end, there is a normative story that we live into as a church: the story God is telling through scripture, as summarized in the words of the creed. And

vital role of the imagination in spiritual formation is to help a young person make meaningful connections between the church, the world, and her life.

We can't know at any given time how God will bless our faithful witness. So the apparent numerical growth of the church is never a good guide to how faithful we have been in evangelism.

At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.

In time, the church will actually be organized more as a military force with an army, navy, air force, etc.

If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

I started doing the nursery and then prepared 89 hours to teach 2 to 4-year- olds.nd during this time working in this church and going to a little country church, I met Randy [White].