Quotes about Church
Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.
— Charles Hodge
The prevailing mentality was that the Church must not be a Church of laws but, rather, a Church of love; she must not punish. Thus, the awareness that punishment can be an act of love ceased to exist. This led to an odd darkening of the mind, even in very good people.
— Pope Benedict XVI
I would not have believed the gospel had not the authority of the Church moved me.
— St. Augustine
He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.
— St. Augustine
He cannot have God for his father who has not the Church for his Mother.
— St. Cyprian
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'
— Saint Jerome
Whatever greatness there is in him (and it is there), whatever constructive influence he has exerted on the Christian church (and it has been incalculable), he himself would attribute to the sovereign grace of God working through yet another "clay jar" (2 Cor. 4:7).
— Sam Storms
It is our Lord's wisdom, that His kirk should ever hang by a thread; and yet the thread breaketh not, being hanged upon Him who is the sure Nail in David's house (Isa. xxii. 23), upon whom all the vessels, great and small, do hang; and the Nail (God be thanked) neither crooketh nor can be broken. Jesus,
— Samuel Rutherford
We can't know at any given time how God will bless our faithful witness. So the apparent numerical growth of the church is never a good guide to how faithful we have been in evangelism.
— Mark Dever
If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.
— Andy Stanley
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.
— Origen
Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity
— Martin Luther