Quotes about Church

You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.

When we speak of the Church as the Body of Christ we are saying that it is given such union with Christ that it becomes a communion filled and overflowing with the divine love.

One cannot pass without interruption from Christ to the Church. The Cross stands between. In being the Body of Christ, the Church meets her Lord; she does not prolong Him, but she expresses Him here and now. She does not replace Him, but makes Him visible, demonstrates Him without being confounded with Him.

There can be no more laying of foundations, any more than there can be other incarnations or crucifixions of Christ or rebaptism.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.

The goal was not only to teach people the Bible and minister to people personally and spiritually, but also to build a church to be community focused.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.

The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.