Church Quotes - Page 32

When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them.

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.

It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.

Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel.

The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets.

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

We've got far too many churches and so few fellowships

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference.

The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.

When Christians are caught in sin, they do not need isolation or amputation; they need restoration. The proper thing to do is to help them confess their sins and find forgiveness in Christ, and then welcome them back into the fellowship of the church.

The church has been under-fathered and over-mothered.

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

The most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine punishment, it's warped and brainwashed countless millions.

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

He who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever.

The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not about to drop 'granite.' They say 'granodiorite' when they are in church and 'granite' the rest of the week.

Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews

God nowhere asks anyone to have a large church. He only calls us to do his work, proclaiming his Word to people he loves under anointing power of the Holy Spirit to produce results that only he can bring about.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

You stand out like a fart in a church.

It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the very moment when modernity itself is undergoing a kind of spiritual collapse.