2,024 Quotes About Church

Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or death, success or failure. All transformation starts with what comes from our mouth.

I remember feeling dimly that there was a kind of blackmail in it. People, I felt, ought to love the Lord because they loved Him, and not because they were afraid of going to Hell.

Church must lead all other spheres of influence.We find people from all the mountains there.The church leaders must be able to mentor them

A church leadership that cannot provide members with business ideas should stop demanding tithe from them. Plant greatness in the members and they pay greatly; Plant zero in them and they pay in negatives!

We have created youth ministry that confuses extroversion with faithfulness. We have effectively communicated to young people that sincerely following Jesus is synonymous with being 'fired up' for Jesus, with being excited for Jesus, as if discipleship were synonymous with fostering an exuberant, perky, cheerful, hurray-for-Jesus disposition like what we might find in the glee club or at a pep rally.

A church that provides relationships as a solution to the peoples felt needs is a church on the threshold of eternal damnation

Je paradox, že cirkev dnes nástojí na tom, že vie, čo je priordzené, a vyhlasuje to za posvätné, čím sa míľovými krokmi blíži k Darwinovmu princípu prirodzeného výberu, proti ktorému ešte nedávno tak urputne protestovala. A, naopak, nie je paradox, že vo vulgárnom poňatí Darwina sa dnes katolícka cirkev chtiac-nechtiac ocitá po boku fašistov.

The Church was the one institution whose mission depended on galvanizing attention; and through its daily and weekly offices, as well as its sometimes central role in education, that is exactly what it managed to do. At the dawn of the attention industries, then, religion was still, in a very real sense, the incumbent operation, the only large-scale human endeavor designed to capture attention and use it.

Chiesa, piazza, osteria: lo schema nucleare di ogni paese del Friuli. La chiesa per lo spirito, la piazza per il lavoro e infine l’osteria per la socialità.