Quotes About Church

We don't have A "missional" problem. We Have A discipleship Problem.

The circle of those whom God loves has always been bigger than the circle the church has drawn. That is the scandal of grace.

Many of us are religious precisely to keep us from trusting God. We go to church, we give money, and we do all the right things--in the hope that God will never puts us in a position where we actually have to trust him.

Why do they call it the Catholic Church? Because if they called it the Pedophiles Club, nobody would join.

if people left our services saying, "What an awesome choir" or "That's a great church," then we have failed in our mission. No, the only thing I want said is, "What an awesome God!" I

In church politics, you're surprised when people are bad, while in secular politics you're surprised when people are good.

A minister in Iowa burned the book in his church parking lot. (This is not as bad as it sounds—before they can burn it, they've got to buy it.)

Regular church attenders tend to come to our places of worship to feel better, not to be hit with the unfamiliar, the uncomfortable, the threatening.

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

You saw all sorts of things in a church where forgiveness was expected.

I could have Matthew McConaughey baptize Kit into the Church of Alright Alright Alright in the Pacific Ocean outside his Malibu compound and people would be like, "Oh, I love that guy, cool choice.

My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.

I began to feel that this city is my home. It came nearer to my heart, not so distant. That's how it started, but now it's different. I am enjoying making friends my age in my church-non-Bengali friends who don't know the customs that keep a widow so lonely.

Spontaneous prayer, sincerely expressed, may be a very important way to speak to the Lord. However, the prayers that we have received from the Church are important ways of teaching us how to pray in theologically correct ways and may even be superior if our spontaneous prayers express untrue notions of God or our relationship to him.

A variation of Get Rich Quick schemes was robbing Peter to pay Paul, or benefiting one person at the expense of others. The origin of the phrase is open to dispute, but one account traces it to the 1500s in England, when the lands of Saint Peter's Church at Westminster were sold to fund repairs at Saint Paul's Cathedral in London.

Están robándonos las ovejas. Así describió un jesuita la oleada de cambios que barren el cristianismo en América Latina,

A postmodern womanist theology can explain why salvation is found both among black women braiding hair in a church on a rainy night and black women dancing to a drumbeat in an old warehouse on a sunny Sunday morning.

The character of a great Gothic church is to be soaring, open, spiritual, defiant of earth's gravity, reaching to heaven, not because of, but "in spite of the stone," as the art historian Wilhelm Worringer has said.

There was evidently a party of outright pacifists in the church. In 1054, another council declared: "A Christian who slays another Christian sheds the blood of Christ." But pacifism presented too many problems in a wicked world. Gregory VII often quoted with approval Jeremiah: "Cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood." Before long, the church itself was the instigator of political wars, and its enemies were those who cried for peace.

The High Middle Ages resounded with conflicts between the popes and the emperors and other temporal rulers.

People sometimes say that ideas cannot be stamped out by force. The Albigensian Crusade proves them wrong. Ideas can be stamped out by the elimination of everyone who holds the ideas. But this is a very costly process. The Inquisition succeeded in the areas where it operated, but did the church immense harm.

let us not overlook that pioneer of aviation Oliver of Malmesbury, who in 1065 made a glider on which he launched himself from a church tower. He was discouraged by the breaking of both legs.

Who cares about theology except the theologians? We are necessary, but less important than we think. The Church is Christ—Christ and the people. And all the people want to know is whether or not there is a God, and what is His relation with them, and how they can get back to Him when they stray.

Christ had made bishops and a Pope - but never a cardinal. Even the name held more than a hint of illusion - cardo, a hinge - as if they were the hinges on which he gates of Heaven were hung. Hinges they might be, but the hinges were useless metal, unless anchored firmly into the living fabric of the Church, whose stones were the poor, the humble, the ignorant, the sinning and the loving, the forgotten of the princes, but never the forgotten f God.