Quotes about Church

How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!

Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.

There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.

Racism is a sin and has no place in the church, including the Archdiocese of Chicago.

The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to have more humility and sincere love.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.