Church Quotes - Page 78

I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me.

When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.

If churches would take ownership of a vision, the next pastor who is thinking about coming to that church can see what their vision is and then determine if their vision fits with his or her ministry. If it doesn't, then it would be wrong for that pastor to come to that church.

The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.

The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

I need to find a church on Sunday. I need to say 'please' and 'thank you,' 'yes sir' and 'no ma'am.' Do the little things because that's part of being an adult.

When I read the documents relative to the Modernism, as it was defined by Saint Pius X, and when I compare them to the documents of the II Vatican Council, I cannot help being bewildered. For what was condemned as heresy in 1906 was proclaimed as what is and should be from now on the doctrine and method of the Church. In other words, the modernists of 1906 were, somewhat, precursors to me. My masters were part of them. My parents taught me Modernism. How could Saint Pius X reject those that now seem to be my precursors?

I don't really believe in anything special, but I respect God. I go to church sometimes, but not often.

We believe that this time of transition will make for a more dynamic Revolution Church, and will help us focus and expand our scope and mission.

I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.

It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it.

The church doesn’t have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church.

The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today largely lack: and that is one reason why our faith is so feeble and our worship so flabby... When a person in the church, let alone the person in the street, uses the word God, the thought is rarely of divine majesty.

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.

The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

When church and state are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other: but where they have been confounded together, no tongue nor pen can fully describe the mischiefs that have ensued.

My body was born into the - baptized in the Methodist church, and it will be buried in the Methodist Church. Meanwhile, I have a soul. And my soul cannot be confined to any human institution.

It is glorious to be a member. It is glorious to have any office or calling in the Church, no matter how relatively humble the title may sound. I am impressed constantly with the fact that, regardless of our calling, we are all encouraged, we are all dedicated, and we are all working in the service of the Master.

The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities is itself a portent of great significance. But the pleasantries which we exchange may, as one church leader said, be pleasantries about profundities.

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.