Church Quotes - Page 118

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

Wanderers, Dublin's oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added "...unfortunately the wrong Church and the wrong Army."

The Revelation speaks powerfully today, and its message to us is the same as it was to the early Church: that "there is not a square inch of ground in heaven or on earth or under the earth in which there is peace between Christ and Satan.".

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Even if I know I'm going to go to a church, I don't know what the minister's going to say.

The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.

What gets me back to church, I think, is thinking maybe this time that question "Is it true?" will be answered, not just in terms of somebody saying, "Yes, it's true," but something will happen in a sermon or maybe shuffling up to the Eucharist, or in the old lady who's sitting beside me with a Bible - maybe something will happen which will show me that it's true. So I go back thinking, maybe this time I'll be lucky.

The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The four Gospels were composed in different times and places over perhaps a third of a century, and for a time circulated separately among a number of other narratives of our Lord's life (of which the newly discovered fragment of an unknown gospel may have been one).

The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose uniformity.In these circumstances, we must imagine the literature of Christianity as spreading gradually, irregularly, and in a manner which variations inevitable.

I don't attend [church] regularly.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs.

So they grew, and they grew, to the church steeple tops And they couldn't grow up any higher; So they twin'd themselves into a true lover's knot, For all lovers true to admire.

I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them.

What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.

Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.

Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

You have access to the Tent Of Meeting.

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.

It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!

Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in.