The Church has been foreordained of God to become that people who will become so glorified that we can bring Christ back to the earth. This glorified church must make the earth God's footstool before Jesus can come again.
The church lives on the fact that modern research about Jesus is not known amongst the public.
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one’s faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God’s church.
What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond.
Unconfessed sin is a terrible, heavy burden to carry. God loves us too much to have unconfessed sin.
A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.
The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.
We need to become a more welcoming church, one that reaches out more to those who have walked away or who aren't very interested to begin with.
I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
I never went to church when I was in college, either.
The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think that we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focusing on what we do - what we're really good at, which is - which is theology and morality.
The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way.
The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.
Spiritual gifts, to put it as simply as I know how, are the more or less concrete and tangible ways in which the Holy Spirit manifests his presence in and through the individual members of the church.
Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.
I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.
This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor.
