Quotes about Church

Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.

In case a dogma is not based on divine authority, it is wrong to call it by that name, and it should not have a place in the faith of the church.

In the old law, God was praised both with musical instruments, and human voices. But the church does not use musical instruments to praise God, lest she should seem to judaize.

In short, those of us who are in the church are in the vale of tears.

The Holy Spirit does not `proceed from the Father and the Son', as the Western church's Nicene Creed maintains. The Spirit proceeds from the Father, rests on the Son, and from the Son radiates into the world.

If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

A church that does not keep step with modern scientific knowledge is doomed.

Most Evangelicals have the church to thank for the Sunday-school classes that taught us what the Bible says and paved the way for our eventual decisions to commit our lives to Christ.

The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.

Karol Wojtyla, the disciple who was a product of the Church in the modern world, not of the Roman bureaucracy.

Jesus was not crucified for being a good citizen, for being just a little nicer than everyone else. The powers of his day correctly saw him and his followers as subversives because they took orders from a higher power than Rome or Jerusalem. What would a subversive church look like in the modern United States?

The called-out assembly of God's people, which is subordinated to Christ as its head and coordinated with its fellow members of the body, lives its life by its practical obedience to God's call in Christ.