Quotes About Church

The life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God.

You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.

Christmas, as a practicing Catholic child, was seen as a reward for lots and lots and lots of church.

The Shallow Faith of the Founding Fathers The founding fathers were politicians and philosophers, churchmen and doubters. They were well acquainted with history, theology,

Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows.

Small wonder that so many English writers have preferred the dramatic certainties of Catholicism. You simply couldn't write a novel like Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory about a church built on the conviction that anything can be settled over a cup of tea.

For as salt seasons all food and nothing is so pleasant as to please the palate without it: so the bishop is the seasoning of the whole world and of his own Church

self-confidence is the worst of teachers—but from the church's most famous writers.

Scripture requires that true worship and faithful teaching are to focus on dealing with the sins of the church and believers, instead of the sins of those outside the church, in the world. The sharpest criticisms in Jesus' teaching are reserved for those who see themselves as devoted worshipers of the Lord. We do not see Jesus condemning the sinners in the world; rather, he condemns the leaders of God's people with his severest words.

The universal testimony of those who have suffered for the sake of Christ and His church is that they have experienced a deep fellowship, an intimate communion with Him in the midst of their sufferings.

I was a seventh grader, twelve, and I had tagged along to so many church camps and vacation bible schools as a preacher's daughter that I was excited to be with kids and believers my own age. One of the best parts of every church camp stay was when we sang together. People who were once strangers sang hymns that felt they like were written for just that shared moment.

In this very fact that the messiah is a symbol of a new historical period, and not a savior, lies one decisive difference between the Jewish concept and the one developed by the Christian Church.

In Christendom he too is a Christian, goes to church every Sunday, hears and understands the parson, yea, they understand one another; he dies; the parson introduces him into eternity for the price of $10—but a self he was not, and a self he did not become….

I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyways. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.

I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyway. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.

went to church a couple of times, once with Brett. She said she wanted to hear me go to confession, but I told her that not only was it impossible but it was not as interesting as it sounded, and, besides, it would be in a language she did not know.

Robert's Rules of Order becomes the guiding text rather than the pattern of the apostolic church.

category. A church doesn't need to pray about whether it should pray. It doesn't need to pray about whether it should serve. It doesn't need to pray about whether it should evangelize.

Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing His name.

Why are there no handsome priest in Paris? One has no inclination to confess anything to an ugly man.

God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think that we know what ought to be done. We ask God first to bless our feeble efforts, instead of absolutely refusing to go unless God go before us.

It is often the parishioners, the men and women in the pews, who set the tone.

Protestants now recognize that the Reformation itself had deeply pastoral roots. The concern was not for the reformation of doctrine and the church as such, but for the care of people in their lives before God, with the realization that thinking wrongly about God leads us to live wrongly.

If the true Church was really lost at some point, how can you know that your version of it is a true restoration? Falling back on sola scriptura does not solve this problem, since all the descendants of the Reformation, divided into hundreds of denominations and tens of thousands of independent congregations, all claim to be simply teaching the Bible.