Quotes about Church

The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

When the world's people look to the "church," they will find "Christians" without Christ. They will find a church that no longer looks to Jesus and says, "There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."41 In fact, they will hardly mention the real Jesus. Instead, they will honor a "good person" who was wrongfully executed and "died before His time.

Mother Church.

Then, beside myself with joy, I cried out: "O Jesus, my Love, at last I have found my vocation. My vocation is love! Yes, I have found my place in the bosom of the Church, and this place, O my God, Thou hast Thyself given to me: in the heart of the Church, my Mother, I will be LOVE! . . .

Is the Black Church Dead? Or, Can These Bones Live?

Fools despise wisdom and instruction" (Prov. 1:7), but it is the nature of true godliness, maturity, and health in church members to accept the loving instruction and rebuke of others.

A committed church member is committed to the maintenance of peace in the congregation. "Let us pursue what makes for peace and mutual upbuilding" (Rom. 14:19). "And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace" (James 3:18).