Quotes About Church

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.

...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.

The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

The church does not need apologists of its causes nor crusaders of its battles, but sowers humble and confident of the truth, who ... trust of its power

It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.

Not to have a confused church is to teach paramount importance of the truth

The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs

The instructor, Ms. Pease, also taught in the church's religious school, and she had a Sunday school manner at once saccharine and condemnatory.

She'd never been religious. She hadn't allowed grief to send her crawling to the church.

Persons are encouraged to tell a personal salvation story when they attend church. No longer does the salvation wrought by God in Jesus have corporate dimensions, no longer is it the salvation of the world. The way we tell the story of salvation is frankly narcissistic.

A missional church does not exist in order to grow. Growth may occur but that is not the goal of ecclesial existence. Service, as proclaimers and doers/disciples of The Word, is the purpose of our being called together.

Those maps always oppressive with faith, as if the only purpose in life was to journey from one church altar to another rather than cross the meticulous blue of a river to reach a distant friend.

It is important to die in holy places. That was one of the secrets of the desert. So Madox walked into a church in Somerset, a place he felt had lost its holiness, and he committed what he believed was a holy act.

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There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.

The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,' because that's nonsense.

When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.

Racism is a sin and has no place in the church, including the Archdiocese of Chicago.

The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.