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For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.
I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
Church can’t be a place where we feel like a visitor, or somewhere we’re afraid to allow others to see our messes. It’s got to feel like home.
That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.
Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.
Well, traditionally, how I grew up, I grew up in the Baptist Church, always going to church every Sunday, Sunday school, vacation Bible school.
If America is ever going to be saved, it will be through a church flowing both in the message of the cross and the miracle of the resurrection.
Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.
You may be poor yourselves in material ways, but you have an abundance of gifts to offer when you offer Christ and the community of his Church.
Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.
In the normal life of an actor or director, running around, there's not much time to go to church. But there's other ways to be spiritual, too.
It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.
In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life.
There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.
Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.
We need to become a more welcoming church, one that reaches out more to those who have walked away or who aren't very interested to begin with.
I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.
In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.
To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.
We believe that this time of transition will make for a more dynamic Revolution Church, and will help us focus and expand our scope and mission.
History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government.
Will turned around slowly, wiping blood from his face. "You're glaring at me," he said to Magnus. "You look like Church before he bites someone.
What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.
The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.
When I found out the heads of the Church were up to things that were not good. I left. I say, you know I don't want to be a part of that at all.
The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to dispense grace to others.
We see that there are two worms that eat the fabric of the Church, weakening Her. Rivalry and vainglory go against this harmony, this agreement.
Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church.
Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying.
Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.
The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.
Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom.
Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.
The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.
For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
I want the whole Christ for my Savior, the whole Bible for my book, the whole Church for my fellowship, and the whole world for my mission field.
Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting.
There were days when the Church could club men into obedience by preaching Hell to them, but that day has long passed. The world has outgrown it.
Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state.
The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.
We will become mightier and more powerful in our own right in direct proportion to the service and contribution we make to strengthen the Church.
What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.
The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had to rescue me from the stage.
The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to the cosmos.
Unless we members of the Church do all we can to preserve the freedoms we have within the bounds of the laws of God, we will be held accountable.
For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley.