T Quotes
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“The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of teaching people being ashamed of their sexuality.”
“The Church is as corrupt as, or more corrupt than, most people. Between the Crusades, the sex scandals over the last few decades, and everything in between, who are they to judge? That’s right: no one. They are far from perfect. Like us. But they keep trying. And they do it in a way that is simple, dependable. Familiar. And that should be worth something to someone who says they are good or are trying to be but who is in actuality bad.”
Source: In Limbo
“The Church is becoming alarmed by the number of people defecting to God.”
Source: Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness
“The Church is both organism and organization - Woven together in a beautifully messy dance that stumbles across the stage of a fallen world.”
“The Church is built on the rock of Peter, and he who eats the Lamb outside this holy dwelling is reprobate .. .He who eats the Lamb outside this Apostolic See has no part with God!”
“The church is called by God to become God’s agent of deliverance in every nation”
“The church is called to be now what the world is called to be ultimately”
Source: The War of the Lamb: The Ethics of Nonviolence and Peacemaking
“The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.”
“The Church is Catholic and therefore can integrate into her unity the authentic riches of cultures.”
Source: Compendium : Catechism of the Catholic Church
“The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.”
“The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two thousand years and continues to tell us, which is why the Church is here and essentially one of the major reasons why people hate it so much.”
“The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.”
Source: In Good Company: The Church as Polis
“The Church is designed to nourish the imperfect, the struggling, and the exhausted.”
“The church is established to equip believers to discern the kingdom of God”
“The church is ever in peril-and never more so than now-of the disaster which must follow when she allows men of distinction in the sphere of human attainments, who are unregenerate or unspiritual, to dictate as to what her beliefs shall be.”
Source: Systematic Theology
“The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.”
“THe church is full of flowers-yellow roses, lilies, blue hydrangeas spilling forth-and it is on these that Charlie trains his gaze and looks for his mother, who is nowhere to be found. Not even her ashes are in the church, and no coffin, but this is less hard to comprehend than the fact that she is not herself there, a thin old bird, an egret maybe, standing on one leg, head bobbing, long neck swiveling. Contradicting, adding and subtracting. poking fun. Peering out.”
Source: The End of the Point
“The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which we were made, is the Spiritual Marriage. This is not socially relative; it is eternal. And in it, the soul is spiritually impregnated by God, not vice versa. That is the ultimate reason why God must always be he to us, never she. Religion is essentially heterosexual and therefore fruitful.”
“The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.”
“The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy. The clergy should live solely on the freewill offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling.”
“The Church is holy, although there are sinners within her. Those who sin, but who cleanse themselves with true repentance, do not keep the Church from being holy. But unrepentant sinners are cut off, whether visibly by Church authority, or invisible by the judgement of God, from the body of the Church. And so in this regard the Church remains holy.”
“The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam.”
Source: Of Divine Service: The Sacraments, &c..
“The church is in the hope business.”
“The church is in trouble-that's what they say anyways. The problem is most of what they call the church is not the church, and the church is not quite as in trouble as everybody thinks. As a matter of fact, the church today is absolutely beautiful-she's glorious, she's humble, she's broken, and she's confessing her sin. The problem is what everybody's calling the church today isn't the church. Basically, by and large, what's called the church today is nothing more than a bunch of unconverted church people with unconverted pastors.”
“The church is instructed to look for its leaders in the first institution, the family.”
Source: What He Must Be …If He Wants to Marry My Daughter
“The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.”
“The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course.”
“The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.”
“The church is like any large corporation in one respect. In its early days, either the early church or the early years of Microsoft, you see all kinds of creativity, innovation, invention, people have nothing to lose, they're trying to find what works. Then you wake up and you're a vast enterprise, and it's very hard, when you have all kinds of buildings and structures and hierarchy and so on, to hang on to these very creative impulses that helped you get your great success in the first place. As a church we're going to have to figure a way out from under this.”
“The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.”
“The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.”
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“The Church is likewise conscious of the responsibility which all of us have for our world, for the whole of creation, which we must love and protect. There is much that we can do to benefit the poor, the needy and those who suffer, and to favour justice, promote reconciliation and build peace. But before all else we need to keep alive in our world the thirst for the absolute, and to counter the dominance of a one-dimensional vision of the human person, a vision which reduces human beings to what they produce and to what they consume: this is one of the most insidious temptations of our time.”
“The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.”
Source: Power Through Prayer
“The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and to promote his Gospel of peace and love in every environment and culture.”
“The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen”
“The church is not a brick-and-mortar structure. The church is made of flesh & blood. Followers of #Christ are the church.”
Source: Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise
“The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.”
Source: Undefending Christianity: Embracing Truth Without Having All the Answers
“The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.”
“The Church is not a fast food outlet. We can't always have it our way. Some day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ, and that salvation can only come His way.”
“The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get well.”
“The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.”
“The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting.”
“The church is not a place for perfection. It is, and should be, a haven of protection.”
Source: We Too: How the Church Can Respond Redemptively to the Sexual Abuse Crisis
“The church is not a place where perfect people gather to say perfect things, or have perfect thoughts, or have perfect feelings. The Church is a place where imperfect people gather to provide encouragement, support, and service to each other as we press on in our journey to return to our Heavenly Father.”
“The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.”
“The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.”
“The Church is not a showboat; it's a battleship.”
“The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.”
“The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about the person of Jesus Christ.”
“The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers”