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Church Quotes
"I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity."
"I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening."
"I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28."
"In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance."
"I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church."
"Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?"
"Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church."
"The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk."
"Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches."
"I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook."
"The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious."
"May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen."
"The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New."
"I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message."
"The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel."
"As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country."
"Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself."
"Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable."
"If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray."
"A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints."
"Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority."
"Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation."
"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."
"The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation."
"The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical."
"You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church."
"There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church."
"We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians."
"We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church."
"I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church."
"I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church."
"There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility."
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