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What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.
My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving.
Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.
We have a priest at Inter Milan and a chapel at the training ground. That is where I was baptised and confirmed into the church.
There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.
In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.
The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.
There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.
Every story of change there is always someone who didn't have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway.
Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.
No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.
We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour.
All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'
Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of the church.
The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.
It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause.
I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
Polygamists have no connection with us whatsoever. They don't belong to the church. There are actually no Mormon fundamentalists.
The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.
We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God.
Exsanguinated," said Jace, impressed. "That's a big word." "And you're a big-" "Tsk tsk," he interrupted. "No swearing in church.
It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.
Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub.
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe and not a mission.
My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically; how could I not?
When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone.
Where I can preach I do preach and where I can't I still preach with love but just not the normal words we usually use in church.
No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.
I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World.
Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.
No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.
Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness.
I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.
You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.
The Taj, the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Cracao Basilica and Polish church are some monuments that hold a special place in my memory.
[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.
I joined church by myself in a borrowed suit at 13. I had my neighbor's bible. So my walk and my faith have always been very real.
Loving the Second Amendment while opposing the NRA is every bit as natural as loving Jesus while opposing Westboro Baptist Church.
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold.
The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.
Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.