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If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.
The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.
The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
People are so shocked when they find ... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church and I love God and I love my church.
Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.
Things are getting much better, but I always wondered when I went to church on Sundays. I've always been one to... I'm not just a boxer.
There's no distinction. A teacher is a preacher. The teachers in public schools are preachers, and the preachers in church are teachers.
Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and shattered.
Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.
I think one of the reasons our court system wants to remove The 10 Commandments is because The 10 Commandments reminds us we are sinners.
The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.
I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.
In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.
Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.
The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.
Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.
Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.
I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.
Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today.
There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us.
Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.
The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about the person of Jesus Christ.
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
God is not going to sit up here and judge you for what you've done in the past. Church has opened up my mind in a whole different aspect.
Regardless of what we say, it's what we do that reveals what we as a church or individual actually believe about God and His will for us.
The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me.
How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.
The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.
Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.
At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.
As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.
Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.
Search for the perfect church if you will; when you find it, join it, and realize that on that day it becomes something less than perfect.
I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them.
The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.
Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them?
Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song?
Next to an old-fashioned church social, or possibly a monster bridge party, there is no buzz which can equal the sibilant buzz ofa matinée.
Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church
Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.
I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas.
God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.
The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.
The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.