Quotes About Church

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.

What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus.

If a pagan asks you to show him your faith, take him into church and place him before the icons.

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.

I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to him, joined by the bond of the covenant.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

Fly to the Catholic Church! Adhere to the only faith which continues to exist from the beginning, that faith which was preached by Paul and is upheld by the Chair of Peter.

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

Neither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church.

I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.

So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.

One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state . . . Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.

Our Faith will never be true unless it is united to that of St. Peter and the Pontiff, his successors.

I don't think it has to be one religious structure, one church. I think the issues of faith and redemption are much more universal than any one religion.

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards.

Faith in the atonement and intercession of Christ will keep us steadfast and immovable amid the temptations that press upon us in the church militant.

Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.

The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.

I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church.