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I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons.
For individuals to become fully active in the Church, they generally must experience a spiritual conversion and a social integration.
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.
We need to be skilled into knowing God and His Word, then act as excellent translators of these things to the people in our churches.
The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.
Stop looking for the perfect church. It does not exist. Even if it did exist, the moment we joined it, it would no longer be perfect!
The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites." You can respond, "You don't even know the half of it."
Let's pray for whole world that there be brotherhood. I hope this journey of the church we begin today is fruitful for evangelization.
For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.
He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary people.
Sin regardless of how you get there is a vulnerable and a dangerous place to be. Living in unforgiveness is living in an unsafe place.
Sunday is the best day of the week because we celebrate the risen Christ of the cross in the local church, the dearest place on earth.
Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.
It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or the Church and Kingdom of God.
Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue.
The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.
It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.
The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.
I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right
I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.
If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.
Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!
A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.
It's a matter of each of the two churches being very deeply enculturated in its own setting and having difficulty understand the other.
The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures
Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?
A 2008 poll of 35,000 Americans revealed that 57% of Evangelical church attenders believe that many religions can lead to eternal life.
I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church.
A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub and the toastmasters.
I'm not sure if every song will be 'Take Me to Church,' but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.
It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.
People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.
Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.
I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.
In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.
Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.
Theres a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from being in the church 27 years. Oh, yeah.
My wife and I like to go to church if we're in town. On Sundays, I try to be as chill as I can, whether I'm watching golf or barbecuing.
We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.
I think anarchy is natural to the Catholic. The Church is pretty anarchistic, you know. Who pays attention to the Pope or the Cardinals?
Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.
I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity.
The doctrines which the Jews had been spreading throughout the land for years could not but have helped to undermine the Church's power.
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.
A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.
When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.