Church Quotes - Page 41

Nor can We predict happier times for religion and government from the plans of those who desire vehemently to separate the Church from the state, and to break the mutual concord between temporal authority and the priesthood. It is certain that that concord which always was favorable and beneficial for the sacred and the civil order is feared by the shameless lovers of liberty.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.

Mercy is the very foundation of the Church's life...The Church's very credibility is seen in how she shows merciful and compassionate love...Mercy is the force that reawakens us to new life and instills in us the courage to look to the future with hope.

How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!

If anyone dared to assert that the Pontiff had erred in this or that canonisation, we shall say that he is, if not a heretic, at least temerarious, a giver of scandal to the whole Church, an insulter of the saints, a favourer of those heretics who deny the Church's authority in canonizing saints, savouring of heresy by giving unbelievers an occasion to mock the faithful, the assertor of an erroneous opinion and liable to very grave penalties.

Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.

I'm definitely not a traditionalist, because a traditionalist would be going to church every Sunday.

[A.J. Muste] was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He later came to New York. He was the minister of a labor temple in the - on the East Side. Then he founded, to my knowledge, the first, maybe the only, labor school; that is, Cornell has a labor department and other schools. But this was a school for - entirely for labor organizers, and he was the - the chairman.

The hands are churches that worship the world.

I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it.

You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees.

Being accepted by the world is the worst thing that can happen to the Church.

Church: if the world could see a snapshot of our worship today, would they perceive that we believe our God is worthy of praise?

Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.

Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject.

Here are the folks that are involved in this New World Order: The United Nations [....] the World Council of Churches [.....] the Council of Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergers [.....] the International Monetary Fund [.....] the Club of Rome, the communists, the socialists, the National Education Association [.....] the NOW organisation, the ACLU, the Masonic Lodge.

Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.

The Church must be one because a fragmented church is not much help to a fragmented world.

The bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source.

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.