Quotes about Church

What is at stake is by no means the question of whether our German members of congregations can still tolerate church fellowship with the Jews. It is rather the risk of Christian preaching to say: here is the church, where Jew and German stand together under the Word of God; here is the proof whether a church is still the church or not.

The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.

He opposed the militaristic nationalism of the new Germany, rooted in "blood and soil," even as the German Evangelical Church and most of its leaders succumbed to the new ideology. By the early period of the war, the embrace of Nazi ideology at all levels of society had led to the complete corruption of social and personal ethical behavior among most Germans.

The universality of the church was illustrated in a marvelously effective manner. White, black, yellow members of religious orders orders—everyone was in clerical robes united under the church. It truly seems ideal.

THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH The unity of the church will consistnot in organizations,not in dogmas,not in liturgies,not in pious hearts,but in the word of God,in the voice of Jesus Christ.

Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession...Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

The Liturgy is Christ praying.

A spirituality that can contribute to the renewal of the church will be solidly trinitarian, as opposed to a mystical monism in which diversity in God is sacrificed to simplicity. It will also be historically oriented-rooted in concrete human history and directed to the transformation of history into eternity.

Friend, the church finds its life as it listens to the Word of God. It finds its purpose as it lives out and displays the Word of God. The church's job is to listen and then to echo.

Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.

Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.

The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.