T Quotes
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“The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.”
“The church itself is a spiritual director. It tries to connect your story with God's story. Just to be a true part of this community means you are being directed, you are being guided, you are being asked to make connection. The Bible is a spiritual director. People must read Scripture as a word for themselves personally, and ask where God speaks to them. Finally, individual Christians are also spiritual directors. A spiritual director is a Christian man or woman who practices the disciplines of the church and of the Bible and to whom you are willing to be accountable for your life in God.”
“The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.”
“The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.”
“The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it, the whole gospel got twisted around it. Instead of being God’s big message of saving love for the whole world, the gospel became a little bit of secret information on how to solve the pesky legal problem of original sin.”
Source: The Last Word and the Word after That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity
“The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.”
Source: The Living Church
“The Church, like the monarchy, was a valuable bastion of defense against the dangerous alliance of atheistical philosophy with political radicalism. The Bible taught the poorer orders that their lowly path had been allotted to them by the hand of God, and the Church was there to make quite certain they understood that.”
Source: When Gods Die
“The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.”
Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal
“The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away; every man who loves surrenders his freedom, whether his passion be the love of a woman, the love of a cause, or the love of God. . . Hence: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Everyone wants the things that only a love of God will bring to him, but most men today seek them in the wrong places. That is why no one comes to God without a revolution of the spirit; he must stop seeking his good in Godlessness.”
Source: Peace of Soul: Timeless Wisdom on Finding Serenity and Joy by the Century's Most Acclaimed Catholic Bishop
“The church marched into his heart. Williams never abandon Anglicanism; he pushed at its borders.”
Source: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
“The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.”
“The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.”
“The church may update its techniques and methods, but it is always in service of the institutional organism. This is one of the reasons why the pedophile priest issue is and will remain an endemic disease in the Catholic Church.”
Source: Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
“The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.”
“The church must acclimate to a changing world, or she will destine herself to irrelevance or even extinction. ...One of those dramatic changes in our environment is the shift from words to images. To do church in a way that is entirely text driven is the kiss of death.”
Source: An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind
“The church must also become increasingly active in social action outside its doors. It must seek to keep channels of communication open between the Negro and white community. It must take an active stand against the injustice that Negroes confront in housing, education, police protection, and in city and state courts. It must exert its influence in the area of economic justice. As guardian of the moral and spiritual life of the community the church cannot look with indifference upon these glaring evils.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“The church must always show compassion, always.”
“The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.”
“The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.”
Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
“The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.”
“The church must be involved in all the seven spheres of life extending the virtues and principles of the kingdom of God”
“The Church must be one because a fragmented church is not much help to a fragmented world.”
Source: For the Healing of the Nations: The Book of Revelation in an Age of Cultural Conflict
“The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.”
“The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.”
“The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth.”
“The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.”
“The church must become a breeding ground for deliverers”
“The Church must breathe with her two lungs!”
Source: Ut Unum Sint: On Commitment to Ecumenism
“The church must capture and keep the minds and hearts of students.”
“The church must constantly promote dialogue.”
“The church must integrate into the environment”
“The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine as they are: Muslims, Hindus and so forth. The Church can never retreat comfortably to within the limits of her own environment. She is charged with universal solicitude; she must be concerned with and for one and all... We must... as the Lord says - go out ever anew 'to the highways and hedges' (Luke 14:23), to deliver God's invitation to his banquet also to those who have so far heard nothing or have not been stirred within.”
“The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God reduced to the role of cramped advocate of current national policy. Surely the pages of history are replete and the examples in many a foreign country convincing that this kind of church-state union-whatever the original motives, or however noble the original purposes-winds up with a state that is less than stable and a church that is less than sanctified, and with the poor still hungry.”
“The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.”
“The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to the cosmos.”
“The church must seek to be biblical rather than relevant. We are not going to leave a mark upon our culture because we have studied its ways and adapted ourselves to it. We are relevant when we reject the world outright and are its polar opposite! This present darkness provides a great opportunity for the church to be the salt of the earth, but if we mix with the very impurities we are supposed to expose... we are as useless as our culture already believes us to be.”
“The Church must send or the church will end.”
“The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.”
Source: Letters Papers from Prison
“The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.”
“The church must suffer for speaking the truth, for pointing out sin, for uprooting sin. No one wants to have a sore spot touched, and therefore a society with so many sores twitches when someone has the courage to touch it and say: “You have to treat that. You have to get rid of that. Believe in Christ. Be converted.”
Source: The Violence Of Love
“The Church must take right ground in regard to politics... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God... God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take in politics.”
“The Church needs more people willing to wash feet, not just point out they're dirty or complain that they smell.”
“The church needs to arise not just against total and absolute ignorance, the church also needs to arise against half-truth or falsehood, which is some of the things that are prevailing in our churches today.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“The Church needs you, your enthusiasm, your creativity and the joy that is so characteristic of you.”
“The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit.”
“The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition of knowledge, even though not sinful, is dangerous, since it may lead to pride of intellect, and hence to a questioning of the Christian dogma.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.”
Source: In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer
“The Church now has been placed potentially in the control of the heavenly places once ruled by the prince of the power of the air. But this reconstituted church must engage and defeat the enemy and retake the heavenlies in the name of her Lord, so that the eyes of those still being held captive by Satan will be opened.”
“The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.”
Source: The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)
“The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.”