Quotes about Church

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

The Church must introduce the individual Christian into an encounter with Jesus Christ and bring Christians into His presence in the sacrament.

Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at predicting what's going to happen in a church service.

In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.

The Church must actualize, be present in the public debate, in our struggle for a true concept of liberty and peace.

The Lord judgeth not as man judgeth; better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ.

As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.

I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity.

Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us.

the overall health of any church or ministry depends primarily on the emotional and spiritual health of its leadership.

Sadly, when we look deep beneath the surface of our lives, most of us are not doing anything fundamentally differently from what our families did. God's intention, however, is that our local churches and parishes are to be places where, slowly but surely, we are re-parented on doing life Christ's way. God intends that his new community of people be the place where we are set free.