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“The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.”

Church Hell Gates Efficacy Gates Of Hell

Book:Untrammeled approaches

Source: Untrammeled approaches

“If the Church would have her face shine, she must go up into the mount, and be alone with God. If she would have her courts of worship resound with eucharistic praises, she must open her eyes, and see humanity lying lame at the temple gates, and heal it in the miraculous name of Jesus.”

Ifs Eye Faces Lying Humanity Jesus Names Church Worship Praise Court Shining Heal Temples Gates Her Eyes Miraculous Lame Eucharistic Alone With God

Author:Frederic Dan Huntington

“The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.”

“They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Still the noise of pursuit grew louder, and still my uncle could hear the young lady wildly screaming, "Faster! Faster!"”

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.”

Feels Should Done Church Hell Promise Gates Looking Back Gates Of Hell

Book:Essential Writings in Spirituality and Theology

Source: Essential Writings in Spirituality and Theology