Quotes About Church

That profession which renders a church visible according to the mind of Christ, is the orderly exercise of the spiritual gifts bestowed on it, in a conversation evidencing the invisible principle of saving grace.

In brief, that which the whole parable teach-eth is, that wherever there is a ministry in the church that Christ owneth or regardeth, as used and employed by him, there persons are furnished with spiritual gifts from Christ by the Spirit, enabling them unto the discharge of that ministry; and where there are no such spiritual gifts dispensed by him, there is no ministry that he either accepteth or approveth.

A ministry devoid of spiritual gifts is a sufficient evidence of a church under a degenerating apostasy.

You have no right to act on your own! You have taken vows, obedience being one! You answer to us! You have no right to step outside the church!

I am trying to prove to you the honour of your houses and your hills; not that the Church is not sacred -- but that the whole Earth is.

He may have also envied the fact that his son was a cop, the preacher thought of himself as a man of peace, and he envied the man of action. The son didn't envy the father. Virgil had been raised in a church and the problems his father dealt with, he thought, would have driven him crazy. It's relatively easy to solve a problem with a gun and a warrant and a prison, but what do you do about somebody who is unloved?

Birkmann waved that away. I'm not religious. Going to church - it's a magic show, in my opinion. Don't tell the Chamber of Commerce I said that. I'm not talking about religion. I'm talking about God, Virgil said. I'm a Lutheran minister's kid, and, believe me, there's a difference between a religion and God. I sorta cut out the middleman.

A church is an institution separate from the religion it serves. It's filled with people. And you know how people are.

Lenson Ornill took in Grayland II's words, their intent and meaning, what they boded for the church as he understood it, his faith as he had developed it, and the genesis of his engagement with both, trapped in that small cabin, struggling to breathe, all those many long years ago. And then, quite without meaning to, he uttered the words to encapsulate what he was feeling about each, in this one epochal moment. "Well, fuck," he said.

People don't mind having the mystical aspect of a church being poorly defined as long as you make the rules of the church clear.

The archbishop arrived at the lectern, dressed in archbishopric finery, or so Kiva supposed, since she didn't actually attend church with any regularity, although she had once had sex in a cathedral, which was great, if you like cold and echoey, which Kiva discovered she didn't so much.

And when we designed the church, we intentionally made the divine aspect of it as ambiguous as possible. People don't mind having the mystical aspect of a church being poorly defined as long as you make the rules of the church clear. We

The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe bodies die by the process of marriage that it seemed to celebrate a mystic double death with its ritual.

The news came early to the beggars in front of the church, and it made them giggle a little with pleasure, for they knew that there is no Almsgiver in the world like a poor man who is suddenly lucky.

A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in church a man's wide open.

You know, if chickens had government and church and history, they would take a distant and distasteful view of human joy. Let any gay and hopeful thing happen to a man, and some chicken goes howling to the block.

Make no mistake: if he rose at all It was as His body; If the cell's dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit, The amino acids rekindle, The Church will fall.

Die christliche Sitte, träge aufrecht dazusitzen wie bei einer Unterhaltungsveranstaltung, deutet darauf hin, dass Gott als Unterhaltungskünstler gilt, der von der Bühne entfernt und durch eine andere Nummer ersetzt werden kann, wenn er nicht mehr unterhält.

When the first blooms came they were like the single big flower Oriental prostitutes wear on the sides of their heads…But when the hemispheres of blossom appear in crowds they remind him of nothing so much as hats worn by cheap girls to church on Easter.

Come here," he asks. The idea of making it while the churches are full excites him. "No," Ruth says. She is really a little sore. His believing in God grates against her.

Let the Church work out its own destiny, Miss McGee. Love it, be faithful, but don't let yourself be thrown off balance at every twist and turn

The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the earth on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.

The Church is a family expecting guests.

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.