Quotes about Church

Bonhoeffer's three conclusions—that the church must question the state, help the state's victims, and work against the state, if necessary—were too much for almost everyone. But for him they were inescapable. In time, he would do all three.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Anyone who perseveres in his sin receives judgement. The church cannot loose the penitent from sin without arresting and binding the impenitent in sin.

The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Freedom for the church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.

A state which which includes within itself a terrorized Church has lost its most faithful servant.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

The church can challenge society, but society also challenges the church. That's good. We should be humble enough to be able to accept that.

The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.

The Church is in the world, it is part of the suffering in the world, and though Christ condemned the disciple who struck off the ear of the high priest's servant, our hearts go out in sympathy to all who are moved to violence by the suffering of others. The Church condemns violence, but it condemns indifference more harshly. Violence can be the expression of love, indifference never. One is an imperfection of charity, the other the perfection of egoism.

The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs.

As long as there is a Church, there will be little Torquemadas