T Quotes
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“The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.”
Source: Pope John Paul II in My Own Words
“The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now that the theories of Darwin having been fairly established, the Church says that the Mosaic account is true because it is in harmony with Darwin. Now, if it should turn out that Darwin was mistaken, what then?”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“The Church desperately needs people of joy and zeal. Show me a church that is consistently obedient to this single command, and I will show you a church that is turning its world upside down.”
“The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.”
“The church didn't know what to do with Ray Charles or Al Green. And so they were kind of ostracized.”
“The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.”
Source: Freedom Under Siege: The Impact of Organized Religion on Your Liberty and Your Pocketbook
“The Church does an enormous amount of good, and it carries one of the most valuable messages imaginable - that you should love your neighbor as yourself, and that if you have two coats you should give one to the man who has none.”
“The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.”
“The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God.”
Source: Unless You Become Like This Child
“The church does not draw people in; it sends them out.”
Source: Loving God
“The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by "attraction": just as Christ "draws all to himself" by the power of his love, culminating in the sacrifice of the Cross, so the Church fulfills her mission.”
“The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.”
“The Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the great thing.. is that upon the Church, which has to declare the will of God in its full magnitude, in its unconditional rigor, so that man should know his true measure, is bestowed as a gift, at the same time, the task of forgiving.”
Source: God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald
“The church does not need apologists of its causes nor crusaders of its battles, but sowers humble and confident of the truth, who ... trust of its power”
“The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren. Not in the former but in the latter is the lack.”
Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
“The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.”
“The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.”
Source: Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City
“The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.”
Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals
“The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.”
“The church doesn't seek apologies and we don't give them.”
“The church doesn’t have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church.”
“The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.”
“The Church dropped the ball early in its history, replacing the full Gospel of the Kingdom, which Jesus taught, with the gospel of salvation and eternal life of institutionalized Christianity.”
Source: Kingdom Fundamentals: What the Kingdom of God Means and What it Means for You | A Thorough and Biblical Exposition of the Kingdom of Heaven as Preached by Jesus
“The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples. She urges financial leaders to take account of ethics and solidarity. And why should they not turn to God to draw inspiration from his designs? In this way, a new political and economic mindset would arise that would help to transform the absolute dichotomy between the economic and social spheres into a healthy symbiosis.”
Source: Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion
“The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him, though otherwise than as they shall reign hereafter; and yet, though the tares grow in the Church along with the wheat, they do not reign with Him. For they reign with Him who do what the apostle says, 'If you are risen with Christ, mind the things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. Seek those things which are above, not the things which are on the earth'.”
“The Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work.”
“The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning.”
“The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.”
Source: The Word and the World
“The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.”
“The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.”
“The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also exists for a third purpose, which serves the other two: to encourage one another, to build one another up in faith, to pray with and for one another, to learn from one another and teach one another, and to set one another examples to follow, challenges to take up, and urgent tasks to perform. This is all part of what is known loosely as fellowship.”
“The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.”
“The church expect too much from the pastors and there's barely anytime left for prayer.”
“The Church expects that each of us carry a share of the burden of leadership. There is no paid clergy. The work is done because of a love of the cause. And as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.”
“The church for too long has followed Casper, the friendly ghost instead of seeking the fire of the Holy Spirit. We have turned limp at the thought of our own cross; we faint when we think of suffering or sacrifice. Beloved, it is time to embrace the fire of God's Presence. It is the fire that purifies our sacrifice.”
“The church generation in which Jesus returns will actively participate in this revolution. ... My premise: Many people alive today will see this revolution in their lifetime.”
“The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.”
“The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.”
Source: At the Back of the North Wind
“The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.”
“The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.”
“The church had to find a way to protect Jesus' perfection so that he could do the work of salvation which, in their frame of reference, only God could do, because God had to come into this world from outside this world to rescue the fallen creation.”
“The Church has a special duty to safeguard and strengthen the sacredness of the Eucharist. In our pluralistic and often deliberately secularized society, the living faith of the Christian community - a faith always aware of its rights vis-a-vis those who do not share the faith - ensures respect for this sacredness”
Source: Letters to My Brother Priests
“The Church has always advised against birth control and that is the only position the Church can take in view of our beliefs with respect to the eternity of the marriage covenant and the purpose of this divine relationship.”
“The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.”
Source: Letters to London: Bonhoeffer’s previously unpublished correspondence with Ernst Cromwell, 1935-36
“The Church has been accused of claiming religious freedom when se is in the minority and refusing it when she is in the majority. The reply is easy.
Truth is the source of virtue and justice, and of peace. Where Truth is, these benefits are visible in society. The Church asks that it should be recognized that she brings these precious gifts to States and that she should therefore be allowed freedom to dispense them. Wise statesmen, concerned for the welfare of their fellow-citizens, willingly admit the value of the cultural and social benefits brought by the Catholic Church and freely grant her a liberty sometimes refused to others.
The Church has the right to claim this liberty of existence and action because it brings with it the precious gifts which flow from the Truth of which in its fullness, she is the sole custodian.”
Source: A bishop speaks
“The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and the leading Christians for our cues. We want to emulate the best known preachers with the biggest sanctuaries and the grandest edifices. Preoccupation with these values has perverted the church's message.”
“The Church has been foreordained of God to become that people who will become so glorified that we can bring Christ back to the earth. This glorified church must make the earth God's footstool before Jesus can come again.”
Source: The wounded body of Christ
“The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.”
“The Church has been playing tricks on people for the past two thousand years and now it's my turn to play some tricks on the Church.”
Source: Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction