Church Quotes - Page 99

The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.

The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.

I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

I'm a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and they will buy every CD that I have released, but they don't me just to bring the instruments much into the church.

An action of God may be the only thing that can save the Church today.

My people worship, but not in a church. They worship the beauty of existence.

Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it.

It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.

Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.

I never went to church as a child. I did not .

I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.

The Church's teaching on ownership diverges radically from collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and "rigid" capitalism. The primacy of the person over things joint ownership of the means of work.

Every act of reverence, every genuflection that you make before the Blessed Sacrament is important because it is an act of faith in Christ, and act of love for Christ. And every sign of the cross and gesture of respect made each time you pass a church is also an act of faith.

Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, 'deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.' I repeat, 'By anyone.'

There is nothing the Church can do except try to educate people to become good consumers.

10 days before the death of St. John Paul II, in that Via Crucis of Holy Friday, Joseph Ratzinger said to the whole Church that it needed to clean up the dirt of the Church.

The Church's challenge is staying close to the people, close to the people of the United States, not being a detached Church from the people but close to them, close, close, and this is something that the Church in the United States has understood and understood well.

Integrating in the Church doesn't mean receiving communion.

I tell priests to flee from clericalism because clericalism distances people. May they flee from clericalism and I add: it's a plague in the Church.

The Church of Rome, the Pope has always said, 'Seek peace.'

It is important to integrate immigrants into society and to welcome them in the church community

Babies cry, make noise, go here and there. But it annoys me when a baby cries in church and there are those who say he needs to go out. The cry of a baby is God's voice: never drive them away from the church!

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.