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The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.
- Henri Nouwen
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.
- Henri Nouwen
I like a church; I like a cowl;I love a prophet of the soul;And on my heart monastic aislesFall like sweet strains or pensive smiles;Yet not for all his faith can seeWould I that cowlèd churchman be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
- Ambrose of Milan
The Church in England is the Church of England.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets.
- Michael Smith
the Church should be the place where a word reverberates right into the world.
- Karl Barth
The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
- Karl Barth
The church speaks finally in that it prays for the world.
- Karl Barth
Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation
- Karl Barth
The area of the Church stands in the world, as outwardly the Church stands in the village or in a city, beside the school, the cinema and the railway station. The Church's language cannot aim at being an end in itself. It must be made clear that the Church exists for the sake of the world, that the light is shining in the darkness.
- Karl Barth
The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.