Church unity comes from corporate humility.
I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs.
Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.
God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?
The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.
Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn-around.
Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be.
It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable. . . for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured.
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.
I would like a more missionary church,Not so much a tranquil church, but a beautiful church that goes forward.
Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.
Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying.
Church can’t be a place where we feel like a visitor, or somewhere we’re afraid to allow others to see our messes. It’s got to feel like home.
I think the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mindset.
Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.
Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.
The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have
Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.
I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.