Quotes About Church

One of our group said that a lot of people in church spend a lot of time correcting each other these days, but in order to correct another person in love, you really have to know that person. Only then, she told us, can you practice the kind of community that the Didache teaches.

To our question Who killed Jesus? the answer too often has been The Jews! The unconscionable anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism promulgated by this verse started in the early church and runs through the Crusades and Hitler to white supremacy in our own day.

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.

Sitting in a church doesn't make you a Christian any more than being in a doctor's office makes you a doctor. It's more than that. The Good Book says it's about believing and confessing.

In church, I look around... I have a secret world in my mind, and if they could see it, they might... I don't know. Stone me.

Divorce confuses the church today because marriage confuses. And marriage confuses the church today because love confuses.

the church's fundamental task is to mediate God's presence as priests and to rule on behalf of God as kings and queens under God, serving God in God's mission. Our task is to represent

We are a passionate family that believes in standing up strongly for what is right, even when there is a cost. We live our lives around our Church and our faith, placing special emphasis on maximizing our involvement in our children's lives, and nurturing family-like relationships with our friends.

Because the saints who remain in God's Church would receive the nourishment of faith even in times of the Tribulation, they will overcome the Antichrist and triumph by embracing their martyrdom with their faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. God explains this fact to us through the metaphor of the woman in chapter 12. Revelation

the church doctrines of sin and salvation are based upon pre-Christian conceptions ultimately dating back to human sacrifices and the mystic rites of cannibalism in which man hoped to partake of divinity and immortality by eating the flesh and drinking the blood of his incarnated God or his representative.

Today, many American Christians seem to mix up church and state. They believe the community of genuine believers in America is the people of God— both in heaven and on earth. But the nation of America isn't the people of God; we don't live in a theocracy. The sooner Christians realize this, the sooner the church can make a deeper impact as salt and light in society.

This is what many women are socialized to do in church: please people, not God. They come to church experiencing ongoing pressure from the world to be plastic Nice Girls, and the church, instead of freeing women to emulate the 360-degree Jesus, influences them to become even more of a smiley-face doormat, by teaching them that this is what God expects from women: quiet, sweet, unrelenting compliance.

Though we all hold our opinions dear, a hard fact of life is that all opinions are not created equal. Someone has to make a final call or else a church will flounder.

We all said good-bye to our partial and piecemeal lives. We each used to independently call our own shots, but then we entered into a large and integrated life in which he has the final say in everything. . . . The way God designed our bodies is a model for understanding our lives together as a church: every part dependent on every other part. . . . You are Christ's body—that's who you are! You must never forget this. (1 Corinthians 12 The Message)

The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country.

I waited until they had all filed into the church, the communicants, the families, the gawking townspeople—and these last included farmers, mechanics in blue overalls, and stallholders, some of them from the carnicería, their aprons gathered and bunched in their hands, the white cloth reddened with blood spatter from the slabs of cow meat, pigs' heads, and pigs' trotters they had knifed apart that morning.

Do you know where it is—the church?" More murmurs, the students conferring, a shaking of heads: no one had a clue. "So this is something we have to do!" I said, and they laughed.

found myself confiding that I had been bored in church and in school and listening to speeches (escuchando discursos).

I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.

Judson Church was a very important place because they believed in art. They also took care of drug addicts. Without the Judson, nothing could have happened.

The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.