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The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum.
The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.
Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.
The Catholic Church is still very angry about The Da Vinci Code - they don't like anything that makes more money in a weekend than they do.
Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.
Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred - the Bible, the crucifix, the church - if only we do not worship God Himself.
I'm not denouncing the church, and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worthy of denouncing.
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
We're not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn't mean that every church that doesn't join them isn't a church.
The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.
I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with a guitar and that was a thrill!
The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.
Pastors started killing their church members and church members killed pastors. Husbands killed wives. It's a situation no one can describe.
Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.
I love the church, the church that God is establishing, that Jesus died for, so I'll never have any negative things to say about His church.
I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards.
The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.
The reason we have to regulate . . . church schools is that . . . children that are not trained in state-controlled schools will not fit in.
The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter.
The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world.
Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.
In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.
I wanted to be successful enough that I'd have opportunities to talk about the church. I wanted people to listen whenever I talked about it.
If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God.
You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church.
I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.
My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.
I'm a pastor. I say, 'Let the church say amen,' and that settles it. Everything has been said, you know; it's like we have to agree with God.
I encounter many Christians who've been raised in the church but never realized that there's a cohesive storyline from Genesis to Revelation.
I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church.
A poor believer [monetarily] certainly is looked down upon in certain churches, and yet he may be the richest man spiritually in that church.
Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.
The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.
If you've ever left a bag of clothes outside the Salvation Army or given to a local church drive, chances are that you've dressed an African.
Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone.
Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.
...learn to perceive and control your chakras; they are like seven churches within you, each holding a different aspect of the Mystery of God.
Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world.
The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model
When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle still grazed on the meadows near Church Farm.
If you grow up playing in church, it removes a lot of the boundaries that other musicians might have, growing up with sheet music or whatever.
Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.
If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.
Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a lion, he is now trying to crush her by hugging her like a bear.
My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway.
Richard Hadlee has the appearance of a rickety church steeple and a severe manner which suggests that women are not likely to be ordained yet.
The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation.