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We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.
As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .
The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion - always.
Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.
Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.
PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
Regrettably, we've made it acceptable to sit in church week after week & do nothing & still call yourself a 'Christian.'
Service is an imperative for those who worship Jesus Christ and a covenant obligation of those who belong to his Church.
The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.
The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead.
In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country
Every church is flawed. Still, you'd better learn to love it since it's the only group Jesus said he's taking to Heaven.
I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.
I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.
The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.
The church has no authority to preach of inclusivity if we fear altering the look of our church by bringing in the poor.
But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.
I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity.
As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.
Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.
The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.
Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.
Anytime a church squabbles over minor things you can be certain they do not have a clear picture of what they need to be.
I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt of lightning if I didn't.
The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.
For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.
When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.
God's everywhere, but I gotta go down (to church) to see him? Really? And he's mad at me down there, and I owe you money?
While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside.
When will we realize that one of the greatest mission fields in the West is the pews of our churches every Sunday morning?
I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.
I am a believer of all religions. I will happily visit a temple, mosque, church. I do not differentiate between religions.
That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots.
The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.
The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply
Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community. He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton has done.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees.