Quotes About Church

all this made of the church for me something entirely different from the rest of the town: an edifice occupying, so to speak, a four-dimensional space—the name of the fourth being Time—extending through the centuries its ancient nave, which, bay after bay, chapel after chapel, seemed to stretch across and conquer not merely a few yards of soil, but each successive epoch from which it emerged triumphant,

but whenever I thought about them I pictured them to myself either in tapestry, as was the 'Coronation of Esther' which hung in our church,

After being arrested in June 2000, Reardon pleaded guilty of 75 counts of abuse, including rape, of 24 boys, and received up to 50 years in prison for his crimes. The YMCA quickly settled the boys' claims against it; but the church held out for another year.46 The Boston Archdiocese finally paid $85 million to settle the claims of 552 victims, including Reardon's, in September 2003.

The election of a Latin American pope should happen sometime in the next hundred years."20

In a number of workshops, I have asked people whether they have had one or more experiences that they would identify as an experience of God and, if so, to share them in small groups. On average, 80 percent of the participants identify one or more and are eager to talk about them. They also frequently report that they had never before been asked that question in a church setting or given an opportunity to talk about it.

I ain't much of a church man, Mark. Guess you might say I'm an agnostic. I don't know." "There's a good bit of agnostic in all of us, Calamity. None of us knows how much - only enough to trust to reach out a hand in the dark.

You are worrying because day after tomorrow the tribe will be able to buy liquor?" the Bishop asked Mark as he climbed on the plane. " A little, my lord; I'm afraid some of my best parishioners will end up in the gutter. " The church belongs in the gutter. It is where it does some of its best work.

Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.

Results have proved that minute setting forth of doctrine and theological distinctions are not only non-essential but their absence is strongly conducive to the spirituality of the Church of God, and the success of its work.

San Josemaría criticaba la visión clerical que no distingue ámbitos —el orden natural y el sobrenatural, la Iglesia y el Estado, la religión y la política, etc.—, y sostenía que para la inmensa mayoría de los asuntos humanos no había una "solución católica", sino que cada cristiano elige la opción más conveniente según el dictado de su conciencia bien formada.

Everybody," he said, "who goes to church gets ill. You must listen to the plants and stones because God is in them, and all the rest is junk.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.

The only church that illuminates is a burning church.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

I'm married, honey. My social life consists of work, church, taxiing the kids around and trying to schedule sex with my husband at least once a month.

The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.

But the nature of that particular effect illustrates a powerful new trend in European Christianity that, taken in its many instances, constituted a vitally important turning point in the history of the church.