Quotes About Church

churches start looking for bodies to fill slots rather than spiritually alive saints to assume responsibility.

In the United States, there are 1,600 forced resignations of pastors every month. Many

The church Body cannot rise above its leadership. Additionally

Every organized church has personal, spiritual and leadership problems.

the Western church has often stressed its personal relationship with God at the expense of its corporate relationship to Him. This

The Church is more than an organization; it is a living organism in which every member has a part.

There still can be help and hope after a point of crisis, and we must never forget that. The church is supposed to be a redeeming community, in which every member is on one rung of the recovery ladder, reaching down to the person on the rung below and helping them rise above their circumstances and addictions. This cannot happen unless there is honesty-about ourselves and with each other.

Yet the Church does not exist for the infirmary; the infirmary exists for the Church. The

Lest you think we are utterly depraved, I want you to know that we are both registered Republicans and members of the Episcopal Church, and attend regularly except during the Boating Season

Saints, Slaves, and Blacks is a treasure. It touches on pivotal topics in American history. It is American religious history at its finest. And it dealt with complex issues of faith, religion, church, race, politics, and social standing that still impact most of us. Edward J. Blum San Diego State University

The period which this Chapter covers witnessed the dawn of a revolution in Western worship – the introduction of musical instruments. As we saw in Volume One, the early Church did not use instruments in its worship, regarding them as Jewish or Pagan, but not part of the apostolic tradition of Christian worship.

We first hear of a musical instrument being used in Western worship in the 8th century, for in the year 757 the Frankish king Pepin presented an organ to the church of Saint Corneille in Compiegne, north of Paris.

In fact, it was not until after Aquinas, in the 14th and 15th centuries, that the playing of musical instruments became a widespread, regular and accepted feature of ordinary Western worship.

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

Even when we were standing in the church and I was getting ready to take my vows, I can remember wishing that you were standing there, instead of him. Because I not only still loved you, but loved you beyond measure.

God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.

I was a military brat. My dad was in the military, so I was born in Germany. I moved around a lot; I was in church a lot.

I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.

Growing up, I was vaguely aware of things that went on in church, because I was in the boys' choir at the local Episcopal church. But I got the clear message that I was supposed to learn music there, and not pay too much attention to the rest of it, and I followed those instructions very carefully.

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

Gospel influences your soul. If you've had church in your background... it's just a part of your musical DNA.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

I grew up loving music and being super involved in church choir and school musicals and such, but when I started writing is when I fell in love with the idea of doing it for the rest of my life.