Quotes about Church
The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.
— Pope Benedict XVI
I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
— Thomas Becket
When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right.
— Dorothy Day
The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.
— Brother Andrew
The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.
— Pope Francis
I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.
— Pope Benedict XVI
I'm not an expert in the sociological realities of all the pastors in the world, but I would say that there are some very, very positive things about the state of integrity in church leaders.
— Henry Cloud
The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Nothing will divide the church so much as the love of power.
— St. John Chrysostom
The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.
— Francis Schaeffer
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.
— Charles Hodge