Quotes About Church

não chegava à convicção de que existe um Deus enquanto ser dirigindo os nossos destinos. Fosse como fosse, como podia eu saber disso? E eles, que podiam eles saber? Teriam a certeza de ter a certeza? Estava sentado numa igreja com a estranha e feliz sensação de que a minha não crença e a crença deles eram curiosamente próximas.

Where I can preach I do preach and where I can't I still preach with love but just not the normal words we usually use in church.

I actually go to church. I know it's hard for you to believe. It's only because you know that Jesus on the cross? I love his smooth hairless body.

The Church is the home that accepts everyone and refuses no one ... the greater the sin, the greater the love that the Church should show towards those who convert.

Every church is flawed. Still, you'd better learn to love it since it's the only group Jesus said he's taking to Heaven.

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

I would love to see the Church on the right side of history.

It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.

My religion is my whole life. I love sharing it with people and clearing up any misunderstandings people might have about our Church.

The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.

Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained

On Church: Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings instead of groups of people who love Jesus?

In their churches the Protestants taught believers to go out of the four walls of the church to demonstrate their love for God by how they serve fellow humans

People should see genuine, authentic love in the church

When any sector of the church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

Oddly, I've never heard of a church or denomination that asked people to affirm a doctrinal statement like this: The purpose of Scripture is to equip God's people for good works. Shouldn't a simple statement like this be far more important than statements with words foreign to the Bible's vocabulary about itself (inerrant, authoritative, literal, revelatory, objective, absolute, propositional, etc.)?

have no hope for the church reforming or renewing. My only hope is that it collapses and dies soon, before it does too much more harm, so something new can be resurrected." Others had hope for renewal but talked in terms of centuries, not years or even decades. Latter-Day Saints, Adventists, Unitarians, and many others have reached out to me about their similar spiritual frustrations in their unique contexts.

Postmoderns are not less interested in religion than ever before. Indeed, they are exploring new religious experiences like never before. The church has simply given them a less interesting religion than ever before. Leonard Sweet, Quantum Spirituality: A Postmodern Apologetic

Church!" she cried. "Why would I ever go there? I was already feeling terrible about myself. They'd just make me feel worse.

yardstick by which to judge who might be saved: participation in the two sacraments, Baptism and the Lord's Supper; an upright moral life; and a public profession of the faith. These were adequate for a disciplined church on earth.

The church, said Calvin, is not subject to secular government except in obviously secular matters. On the other hand, the church has the obligation under the sovereign God, to guide the secular authorities in spiritual matters. Such a vision sent Calvin's followers throughout Europe as a spiritual conspiracy seeking the overthrow of false religion and restrictive governments.

The mystery of the God-man was central to Christian worship long before it became central to Christian thinking. "A deep instinct," J. S. Whale once told the undergraduates at Cambridge University, "has always told the Church that our safest eloquence concerning the mystery of Christ is in our praise. A living Church is a worshiping, singing Church; not a school of people holding all the correct doctrines.

Dear dying Lamb," believers sing, "thy precious Blood Shall never lose its power, Till all the ransomed Church of God Be saved to sin no more.

The colonel mustn't really mind the Army being a topsy-turvy place because the Church was often a topsy-turvy place as well, with curates and chaplains often holier than canons and bishops, but of course that wasn't quite the same, because the Lord was there to guide the Church, and although she didn't want to be rude, she didn't think that He had always guided the army in quite the same way.