Quotes About Church

Creo que el príncipe de este mundo será entronado esta noche en la antigua ciudadela, y desde allí creará una nueva comunidad. -Y su nombre será la Iglesia universal del hombre.

Cessi Gladstone se había declarado persistentemente decidida a evitar «los mejores y los peores esfuerzos de los clérigos para privar a la Iglesia de su valor sobrenatural, como Iglesia única y verdadera de Jesucristo».

Prefiero ser un católico seglar que coopera con la Iglesia, a una marioneta en esta pocilga irreligiosa de mal gusto.

El día en que esta Santa Sede se sujete a la nueva Europa de diplomáticos y políticos, a la Europa centrada en Bruselas y París, aquel día comenzarán realmente los infortunios de la Iglesia

On the west portal, that is, the public face of the church, the archivolt has a striking collection of fifty two human heads: at the top of the arch, beneath a labarum, the faces are severe, but on either side they become progressively more grotesque and tormented, apparently because they are farther from God, perhaps even damned.

Organized religion kills the living beauty of God.

Nicht von einem Naturrecht, Vernunftrecht, allgemeinen Menschenrecht aus, sondern allein vom Evangelium von Jesus Christus aus ergibt sich das richtige Verhältnis der Kirche zur Welt.

Der Raum der Kirche ist nicht dazu da, um der Welt ein Stück ihres Bereiches streitig zu machen, sondern gerade um der Welt zu bezeugen, daß sie Welt bleibe, nämlich die von Gott geliebte und versöhnte Welt.

Then, in the excess of my delirious joy, I cried out: O Jesus, my Love . . . my vocation, at last I have found it . . . MY VOCATION IS LOVE! Yes, I have found my place in the Church, and it is You. O my God, who have given me this place; in the heart of the Church, my Mother, I shall be Love. Thus I shall be everything, and thus my dream will be realized.

This reportedly drew condemnation from Dunstan, but the archbishop was very elderly and died

The monk went on to become Pope Gregory the Great,

in the early fourth century, 350 feet long and able to accommodate around 3,000 worshippers.

after the conquest he received 300 of the island's 1,200 hides for the use of the Church.

The result was that Wilfrid was deposed, and his huge diocese was divided between three new appointees:

Wilfrid did not go quietly. He protested to the bishops of other kingdoms

Cuthbert was consecrated in York as Hexham's new bishop.

According to Bede, on one occasion Paulinus spent more than a month at Yeavering,

The church is empty, but for the demented, grieving figure of SHAKESPEARE, kneeling, praying, weeping, banging his head, in his private purgatory, dimly lit by tallow candles, gazed upon by effigies of the dead and images of his Redeemer. He is wet, bedraggled, weeds and leaves in his hair.

and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it up like a church, follow it like a medical regime, vanquish it like an obstacle, win it like a friendship, cosset it like a little child, create it like a new world without neglecting those mysteries whose explanation is to be found probably only in worlds other than our own and the presentiment of which is the thing that moves us most deeply in life and in art.

and was perhaps even more affecting when it appeared thus without the church. And, indeed, there are many others which look best when seen in this way,

Counter-Reformation, or whatever it be called, did attempt to save the Church from the scandals of the past, and to a certain extent succeeded. But it did so by increased centralisation, and a hardening of temper, alien from earlier movements of reform.

But whatever dismal appearance of things there may be in the world, we need not fear the ruin of the church by the most bloody oppositions. Former experiences will give security against future events. It is built on the rock, and those gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

For the first two or three centuries there were no systems of composed forms of prayer used in any church whatever, as hath been proved.

It therefore behoveth all those who may possibly be called to suffer for the truth in any season, or on any occasion, to assure their minds in this fundamental truth, that they may have in themselves a certain undeceiving understanding of the mind and will of God as revealed in the Scripture, independent on the authority of any church or persons whatsoever; the use of whose ministry herein we do yet freely and fully allow.