2,024 Quotes About Church

When evil altars are invoked, great destinies are altered

I am accountable.I am correctable.I am transformable.Presenting myself a living sacrifice to God. By the love of God.By the word of God.Completely supplied in Christ Jesus.Unto all good works.

Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. Without genuine spiritual community, life becomes a struggle so lonely and grim that even Hillary Clinton has admitted "it takes a village".

Let me get this straight,” countered Zack. “You’re telling me there is some secret fellow in the church whose job it is to deal with molestation cases when they occur?

Pope Benedict XVI wrote that liturgy should be "the rediscovering within us of true childhood, of openness to a greatness still to come, which is still unfulfilled in adult life." The child at play is an image for the kind of openness to life that adults should cultivate--that, in fact, the liturgy is trying to help people discover. In church I am seeking my true childhood.

She’ll be angry,” Kenny argued. “She’ll be mad at me for not protecting Jake. That’s my job.”Tough job for someone so young . . .

Because for her, money isn’t the issue. This is about revenge, payback, even worse, justice.

While churches are looking for decisions, Jesus is looking for disciples.

If a church’s strategy is not grounded in making disciples, the church has abandoned the mission Christ has given.