Church Quotes - Page 93

What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.

In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.

It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.

All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.

The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church; the church is not the foundation for or creator of the Bible. The church and its hierarchy must be evaluated by the believer with the biblical gospel as the touchstone or plumb line for judging all truth claims.

All Christians have opportunities to serve those who might never come to church or listen to a sermon.

You don't need to apologize for an opinion, but in terms of respect for the church and people's faith lives, Hillary Clinton has that respect, because it's what motivates her.

For years, I just did not like this idea of God, church.

Every bishop can testify to the promptings that attend calls to serve in the Church. Frequently the call seems to be for the benefit not so much of those to be taught or led as for the person who is to teach or lead.

The all-important and crowning blessings of membership in the Church are those blessings which we receive in the temples of God

"President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet."

As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.

As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.

If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.

Anyone and anything can be a vehicle for the expression of God - but never contain the fullness of God. Therefore, the church recognizes that God will simultaneously employ and shatter. .. all doctrines, all ideologies. .. even within the church itself.

A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.

The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.

There is no one true church, no one chosen people.

I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to "the truth." The Mormon Church has one of the largest missionary programs in the world. That does not interest me.

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

The importance of the Bible to a church is to keep the church on track. The role of the Constitution in government is to keep the government on track.

I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.