Quotes About Church

The devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions.

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

Church on time, makes me party.

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.

In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.

Really, at a time when theyre debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church.

When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.

A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.

As a matter of fact my, my very first time singing when I was two and a half, three, was in church. So, ahm, church is very, very much a part of who I am.

People don't talk much now about the Spanish influenza.... People came to church wearing masks, if they came at all. They'd sit as far from each other as they could. There was talk that Germans has caused it with some sort of secret weapon, and I think people wanted to believe that, because it saved them from reflecting on what other meaning it might have.

an old pastor's anxiety for his church is likewise a forgetfulness of the fact that Christ is Himself the pastor of His people and a faithful presence among them through all generations.

Galileo was right, and the Church in this case abused its disciplinary power. As Pope John Paul II admitted in 1992: "This led them [the theologians who condemned Galileo] unduly to transpose into the realm of the doctrine of the faith, a question which in fact pertained to scientific investigation." Such acknowledgments, however, didn't come for almost four centuries.

But della Rovere frowned and said, Heed my warning, Guido Feltra. He's full of the devil, this son of the church.

If the Clericuzio Family was the Holy Church for the Mafia empires scattered over the United States, then the head of the Family, Don Domenico Clericuzio was the Pope, admired not only for his intelligence but for his strength.

recuérdese las encíclicas papales y los pronunciamientos de la Iglesia católica contra él, que todavía perduran pese a la existencia de tantos creyentes liberales— y, luego, del socialismo y el comunismo

Llama al diezmo que se paga a la Iglesia un impuesto «puramente negativo» pues no genera beneficio alguno ni al propietario, ni al arrendatario, ni al soberano, sólo a la Iglesia (lo que confirma el tibio creyente que era Adam Smith).

There were two things that Beckman truly loathed in life: sitting in the first three rows of the movie theater and the Catholic Church.

The church's entrance was strewn with the dark immobile forms of men in bulky overcoats, asleep on cardboard boxes. They might have been dark whales, caught unaware by a tide that suddenly receded, leaving them stranded on the steps.

The notion that you can come to church on Sunday and bend your knee in worship when in fact you have not done so during the week is a delusion.

The gospel is never about seeking our own comfort, and it always drives the local church out to do more for God in the world.

Self-sacrifice is a hallmark of healthy church life.

Increasingly the United States found itself isolated. Having for two decades enjoyed its status as champion of the free world, it was increasingly the target of bitter criticism abroad and at home, where a growing number of prominent intellectuals and church leaders denounced the bombing campaign as barbaric. The military might disdain the fickle nature of public sympathy, but a democracy cannot sustain a war effort without it, and moral revulsion was growing.