“When a church is truly convinced that prayer is where the action is, that church will so construct its corporate activities that the prayer program will have the highest priority.” ActionChristianChurchPrayerActivityHighestProgramConvincedPrioritiesCorporateConstructs Author:Paul Billheimer
“I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community.” CommunityChurchInvolvedActivityProgramCongregationOutreach Author:Samuel Wilson
“We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.” BodyAgeChurchYouthActivityOld AgeRepentanceCompensationFarceRevelry Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words
“[On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male closed shop, seeing that, to judge from church attendance, women are the more religious sex - while our criminal statistics make quite clear that they are the least wicked.” ShouldSexChurchReligiousClearSeeingParticularJudgingActivityMalesCriminalsOddWickedShopsPriestsStatisticsSpheresClergyAttendanceChurch Attendance Author:Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks
“The real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature. But in order to do that, we have to slice away at our egos and try to get them down to a manageable size, and then still work some practiced light meditation. So real religion is about reducing our egos, whereas all the churches are interested in is egotistical activities, like getting as many members and raising as much money and becoming as important and high-profile and influential as possible.” IfsTryingStillsImportantRealLightMightOrderUnderstandingChurchChanceMeditationDivineBecomingActivityMembersEgoSizeSecondsReducingInfluentialProfileEgotisticalManageableHigh ProfileExperiencing Something Author:John Cleese
“In 1962 (Engel v. Vitale), the Supreme Court explained that the word 'church' would no longer mean a federally established denomination; it would now mean a religious activity in public.” MeanChristianChurchReligiousActivityCourtSupremeSupreme CourtDenominationsEngels Author:David Barton
“John Marshall's warning that the power to tax is the power to destroy has taken on far greater meaning... more specifically, the power of the Internal Revenue Service is threatening to destroy the freedom of religion , guaranteed by the First Amendment. As part of that guarantee, Congress has granted tax exemptions for churches to avoid excessive interference in their religious activities.” FirstsChristianChurchReligiousTakenGreaterActivityTaxesCongressGrantedGuaranteesInternalsWarningAmendmentsThreateningRevenueFirst AmendmentInterferenceFreedom Of ReligionExemption Author:Chuck Grassley
“One of the most popular current errors, and the one out of which springs most of the noisy, blustering religious activity in evangelical circles, is the notion that as times change the church must change with them.” ChurchReligiousActivitySpringErrorsNotionCurrentsCirclesEvangelicalNoisy Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“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.” MeanEndsMotherCultureVoiceChurchActivityUnderstoodConscienceResponsibleInternalsCatholicismProtestants Author:Francis George
“If you're going to say you're Catholic, you inform your conscience so that you're activities will conform to what God is telling us through the Church. If God is telling you something outside of that, well, the Church will look at that and say: we think it is true or we don't think it is true. The Church might say: that might be true for you but it has no public normative value.” IfsThinkingWellsLooksMightValuesChurchActivityConscienceCatholicBeing TrueConform Author:Francis George
“If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.” IfsCareChurchActivityBusyTake CareToo Busy Author:Gordon B. Hinckley