“Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.” StillsMightJesusGoalChurchSinMembersErrorsCommittedCommitDespiteWitnessInfidelityTrust MeSlowness Author:Pope Francis
“One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.” MadeTwoTodayChristianChristChurchAcceptingLordErrorsChristian InspirationalDistinctionSaviorArtificialTestamentNew TestamentConfessingChurch Today Book:Living in Kingdom Come Source: Living in Kingdom Come
“No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns ... in all these he has liberty; but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.” IfsMenDoeChurchLibertyLandDaughterManagementErrorsAffairIllPositive AtheismNeighborComplainingSubstanceConformCeremonyConsumingMarryingSowingTaverns Author:Thomas Jefferson
“With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.” HumansSoulBeautifulSpiritualHumanityDifferencesChurchChristianityExpressionErrorsSeekingInsightHuman SoulSeeking GodSpiritual Insight Author:Francis Arinze
“I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.” HeartSaidChurchHolyCatholicErrorsContraryCurseSincereCatholic ChurchHeresySectsDetestSincere Heart Author:Galileo Galilei
“The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew more and more; while the persecutors themselves, and those whom the Church would destroy, are the very ones who came to nothing. . . .Again, errors have assailed her; but in fact, the greater the number of errors that have arisen, the more has the truth been made manifest. . . . Nor has the Church failed before the assaults of demons: for she is like a tower of refuge to all who fight against the Devil.” MadeFactsFightingChurchNumbersGreaterGrewTruth IsDevilErrorsSaintDemonManifestRefugeTowersPersecutionAssaultIndestructible Author:Thomas Aquinas
“The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring the earth. Euclid is perpetually in their hands. Aristotle and Theophrastus are the objects of their admiration; and they express an uncommon reverence for the works of Galen. Their errors are derived from the abuse of the arts and sciences of the infidels, and they corrupt the simplicity of the gospel by the refinements of human reason.” HumansArtReasonHandsEarthHeavenLosesChurchStudyObjectsAbuseSightMathematicsErrorsSimplicityAdmirationReverenceEmployedNeglectedGeometryUncommonRefinementMeasuringArt And ScienceInfidelHuman ReasonEuclidGalen Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)
“Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.” WellsSoundChurchCatholicFundamentalsErrorsSignificantDoctrineOrthodoxCouncilLutherCatholic ChurchRoman CatholicRoman Catholic Church Author:Norman Geisler
“For Christians to be linked in association with ministries who do not preach the gospel of Christ is to incur moral guilt. A Union which can continue irrespective of whether its member churches belong to a common faith is not fulfilling any scriptural function. The preservation of a denominational association when it is powerless to discipline heretics cannot be justified on the grounds of the preservation of 'Christian unity'... It is error which breaks the unity of churches, and to remain in a denominational alignment which condones error is to support schism.” ChristianChristChurchCommonMoralBreakSupportDisciplineMembersFunctionGuiltUnionsErrorsUnityAssociationMinistryFulfillingPreservationLinkedPowerlessJustifiedAlignmentHereticSchismChristian Unity Author:Charles Haddon
“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
“I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.” ThinkingRealTodayPastFacesChallengesChurchErrors Author:George Coyne
“For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men.” MenWorldYearsChristianSpiritualChurchLordDarknessTeachingTruth IsFundamentalsSalvationErrorsDoctrineBelongingCommandmentsVeilsChristian ChurchJoseph SmithSpiritual Darkness Author:Joseph Fielding Smith