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I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.
The church is the only mechanism for mass mobilization. That's why the civil rights movement came out of the church.
I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go.
I believe in the separation of church and state and would not use my authority to violate this principle in any way.
The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.
In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.
People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't trust the media.
I tell people, you know, going to the club doesn’t make me a bad person, going to church doesn’t make you a good one.
Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.
It's amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won't lift a finger to help at home!
I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.
The theater is the 'church' and when I'm on that stage I am the Priest/Pastor, it is a pure spiritual journey for me.
Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
In all my eleven years of itinerant ministry I cannot recall any growing church which does not encourage small groups
The doctrine of the Church should be proven, not announced. Therefore show that the Scriptures teach these things.
A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.
Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.
Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity.
I played at my church every once in a while, but that's not a good gauge, because everybody loves you at your church.
Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.
Before a big event, I usually go to church and light a candle for St. Sebastian, who is the patron saint of athletes.
The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.
All of us have weaknesses, but we also have strengths. God’s Spirit has gifted each of us for the good of the church.
If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.
One family--we dwell in Him, One church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream of death.
Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.
whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.
The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman.
Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it
I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.
The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.
There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia.
Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.
If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church
If it's the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.
If the church is to be missionary, she must be spiritual; and if the church is to be spiritual, she must be missionary.
Who influenced you? When did they influence you? How have they influenced you? What have you done with their influence?
If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.
It's not about the church meeting your needs; it's about joining the mission of God's people to meet the world's needs.
If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.
The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.