T Quotes
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“The Church is not an enforcer of rules, but an outpost of grace”
Source: Live, Love, Lead
“The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets.”
Source: Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
“The church is not here to meet our needs. We are the church here to meet the needs of the world.”
“The church is not made up of spiritual giants; only broken men can lead others to the cross.”
Source: A Spirituality of the Road
“The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship.”
Source: Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture
“The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.”
“The Church is not segregated by region or cities. That's an antiquated view of the world. We are united with churches all over the world working toward common goals based on shared values. Mosaic is one of the most racially diverse churches on the planet. Our community and extended Church family is global and completely integrated.”
“The Church is not the building, its the people, its not just the gathering, its also the scattering.”
“The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.”
“The church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise.”
“The church is one of the least safe places to acknowledge abuse because the way it is counseled is, more often than not, damage to the victim. The church cannot tolerate these abusive authorities.”
“The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.”
“The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in need. The clergy must live solely on the free-will offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling. The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live in Christ, to exist for others.”
Source: Bonhoeffer for a New Generation
“The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.”
“The Church is our Mother, which means it is an internal voice. It is not a set of external rules. That's what isn't understood about Catholicism in this Protestant culture. It means that your conscience is formed by the Church, but in the end you're responsible for your own activities.”
“The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.”
Source: The Will to Power
“The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.”
“The church is so big on law but not on the love.”
“The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.”
“The church is something beautiful”
Source: The church before the watching world: a practical ecclesiology
“The church is supposed to help the people discover their calling and reveal the Kingdom of God to them”
“The Church is that one wherein the true word of God is preached, which Christ left to His Apostles, which the same Church hath always observed, the doctors preached, and Martyrs and confessors witnessed. This is the Church I believe to be true.”
“The Church is the Body of Christ begotten, unified, and indwelt by the Spirit, but forgetting the Spirit, men wrangle over limbs, functions, and orders. The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.”
Source: The Way to Pentecost
“The Church is the Body of Christ, and the Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. He fills the Body, directs its movements, controls its members, inspires its wisdom, supplies it's strength. He guides into truth, sanctifies its agents, and empowers for witnessing. The Spirit has never abdicated His authority nor relegated His power.”
“The church is the bride of Christ. The kingdom will be the eternal celebration of the wedding of Christ and the church. We will enjoy rapturous celebration as the bride of Christ in the eternal kingdom.”
Source: Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About
“The Church is the Church in her worship. Worship is not an optional extra, but is of the very life and essence of the Church. ...Man is never more truly man than when he worships God. He rises to all the heights of human dignity when he worships God, and all God's purpose in Creation and in Redemption are fulfilled in us as together in worship we are renewed in and through Christ, and in the name of Christ we glorify God.”
“The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.”
Source: A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.”
“The church is the cross that Christ was crucified on.”
“The Church is the dwelling place of God in the Person of the Holy Ghost.
Where the Church thrives, people are blessed and progress is evident. Where there is no Church, people feed their babies to crocodiles and roam naked in the jungles.”
“The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.”
“The church is the gospel made visible.”
“The church is the gym of the soul.”
“The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.”
“The Church is the Heart, not the amount of Sunday services you attend because many people goes to church but still partake in Devilish acts.”
“The Church is the home that accepts everyone and refuses no one ... the greater the sin, the greater the love that the Church should show towards those who convert.”
“The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is forbidden for women to enter in trousers, without a veil on their head, in short clothing, low necklines, sleeveless or immodest dresses.”
“The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.”
Source: Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
“The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.”
“The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against it.”
“The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees.”
Source: Messy Spirituality
“The church is the prototype of society. What you do not find in the church, you do not find it in the society”
“The Church is the Ship outside which it is impossible to understand the Divine Word, for Jesus spoke from the boat to the people gathered on the shore.”
“The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.”
“The church is unlike school. Simply, because you can't ask questions while the service is being delivered.”
“The Church is where it is today because it has decided that the advertising agents know better than the Holy Spirit of God.”
“The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to dispense grace to others.”
“The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a prophet from God with the greatest news the world has ever heard, the most life changing and most revolutionary institution that has existed on earth.”
“The Church isn't a cult for a few heroes. It is the whole of fallen mankind redeemed.”
“The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand is no less a hand for being part of a larger whole, an entire body. The foot is not diminished in its freedom to be a foot by being part of a body which also contains eyes and ears. In fact, hands and feet are most free to be themselves when they coordinate properly with eyes, ears, and everything else. Cutting them off in an effort to make them truly free, truly themselves, would be truly disastrous.”