Top 1200 Apostolic Church Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons.

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.

It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself.

The church is the only mechanism for mass mobilization. That's why the civil rights movement came out of the church.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

The Church and only the Church has been given the keys to the kingdom, so we have unique access to God that nobody else has.

The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.

I got baptized in June of 2001, I think. But I always went to church camp, went to church every Sunday, went to Bible class.

We are not the Westboro Baptist Church. We are a church that embraces the tenants of historic Christianity - there's nothing hateful about our members at all.

My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please.

But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church at this hour, and a heresy because it denies that voice to be Divine. How can we know what antiquity was except through the Church? ... I may say in strict truth that the Church has no antiquity. It rests upon its own supernatural and perpetual consciousness. ... The only Divine evidence to us of what was primitive is the witness and voice of the Church at this hour.

Church membership was so important that Paul and Silas baptized the Philippian jailer into the membership of Christ's church at midnight with Paul's back still bloody from a beating! He did not even wait till morning! Identification with Christ's church is important; without it, one must be treated 'as a heathen and publican.'

The king is so subtle with his words that he would confound the apostolic religion itself. He will find the weak points of the pope's character and will trip him up to his destruction.

You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

The church has no authority to preach of inclusivity if we fear altering the look of our church by bringing in the poor.

I played at my church every once in a while, but that's not a good gauge, because everybody loves you at your church.

One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal labor government has regularly angered Church officials by making controversial ministerial appointments against the wishes of the clergy. . . . These and other actions have strained the church-state relationship almost to the breaking point. As a result, some of the bishops have advocated disestablishment.

If we all gave all our goods to the poor, the church would fall apart. If we all hated our father and mother, as Jesus told us to, there'd be an end of the church's emphasis on the family as being the one important thing holding the whole society together. There are all sorts of ways in which the church's teachings contradict directly what Jesus says in the Gospel.

When we say Church of All Nations, it's a vision given to me, that the church will touch all the world.

For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music.

I went to St. James Methodist Church in Clinton, a segregated church on the other side of the tracks.

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.

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

When I don't have to do out on tour I go to church. Church is a good place to be.

It's not necessarily a church theme and it's not really about church. I like my album themes to be metaphors because it gives me the freedom to speak about something else that's going on in my life, so the Born Sinner thing is not about church, it's not even about religion. It's using that as canvas to get other messages across and that's what the album will be.

Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA.

The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.

I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.

Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.

There are financial bankruptcies in many parts of the church. No question about that. But we see the possibility of reimagining and revitalizing the church.

For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

A church that won't listen to the Word of God is a church already lost.

The Church must send or the church will end.

The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God.

That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.

I love the church. And the church is flawed. I think it's important that the issues of justice become important to the church. A lot of these churches don't necessarily take on justice because it affects dollars that come in. We need to start and assess the areas that we're in and not be so obsessed with becoming this big, huge church where everybody's pointing at one leader! We all should be pointing at Jesus, and if that's true we got to get to a place where the people become important to us. It kills me! It hurts me! Jesus has set the example. It's very clear!

Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who is outside the Church nothing is lawful.

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church.

The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the members are active. He [God] appointed some to take oversight of the work so that it might be carried on efficiently. It was never His thought that the majority of the believers should devote themselves exclusively to secular affairs and leave church matters to a group of spiritual specialists.

So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church.

I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.

By the time we get to church, I need church cuz I've been yelled at by everyone in the family.

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

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.

Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.