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“Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.”

People Problem Church Religious Greater Development Tradition Catholic Remarkable Openness Persuasion Desirable Catholic Church Religious Traditions

Author:Francis Arinze

“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.”

Made Facts Fighting Church Numbers Greater Grew Truth Is Devil Errors Saint Demon Manifest Refuge Towers Persecution Assault Indestructible

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within--to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not.”

“Henceforward the Christian Churches having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, came into the hands of the Encratites: and the Heathens, who in the fourth century came over in great numbers to the Christians, embraced more readily this sort of Christianity, as having a greater affinity with their old superstitions, than that of the sincere Christians; who by the lamps of the seven Churches of Asia, and not by the lamps of the Monasteries, had illuminated the Church Catholic during the three first centuries.”

Firsts Hands Christian Form Three Church Numbers Christianity Greater Century Catholic Seven Sincere Fourth Superstitions Asia Lamps Godliness Affinity Christian Church Heathen Monasteries

Book:Observations

Source: Observations

“Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost merciless God; no human agency can help him; his church is a means to political and social organization rather than a bridge to deity, for no priest can have greater knowledge of the divine way than he himself; no friend can console him - in fact, he should distrust all men; in the same fashion, Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.”

“I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it -- filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction.”

Ideas Used Church Religious Greater Stupid Periods Concepts Filled Terror Intense Ministers Everlasting Extinction Visiting Sixteen Never Ending Banquets Everlasting Life

Book:East Side Story: A Novel

Source: East Side Story: A Novel

“Reader! To whatever visible church, synagogue, or mosque you may belong! See if you do not find more true religion among the host of the excommunicated than among the far greater host who excommunicated them.”

Ifs May Church Greater Reader Visible Host Mosques True Religion Synagogue

Book:Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible

Source: Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible

“That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice”

Evil Church Laughing Greater Laughter Malice

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.”

Humans Suffering Church Healing Greater Capacity Wholeness Human Suffering

Author:Bill Hybels

“The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.”

Political Opportunity Church Religious Greater Organisation

Author:George Pell

“A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.”

Source: Golden Hours with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater propriety and stateliness. Greetings were more formal, more subdued, voices more meticulously polite. Everything was so smooth, bland, polished. And genuinely so, because this was Sunday. In church the rustling and the stillness were alike pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best. Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven, and we were in our Sunday clothes.”

Religion Universe Heaven Voice Church Quality Greater Air Streets Special Clothes Sunshine Sunday Stillness Smooth Formal Polite Polished Propriety Greetings Bland

Author:Rose Wilder Lane

“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.”

“If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.”

Ifs World Play Church Greater Honor Worship Concerts Thank God Organs Almighty Finest Privileged Console Church Service

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself; and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.”

Thinking Has Beens Different War Would Be Church Perfect Attention Greater Military Worship Mad Excellence Different Things Novelty Monarchy Idolatry Church Service

Author:C. S. Lewis

“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.”

Love Should Shows Home Church Sin Accepting Greater Refuse

Author:Pope Francis

“A 100 years from now the consequences for standing for Jesus will be greater than the consequences of not standing for Jesus today.”

Years Today Christian Jesus Leadership Church Greater Consequence Standing

Author:Mike Huckabee

“Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.”

Happens Christian Leadership Church Greater Organization Speed Irrelevance

Author:Rick Warren

“In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.”

Has Beens Done Church Education Greater Difficulty Regard Legislature Clergymen

Author:John Strachan

“Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically; it is mainly about displaying the covenant-keepin g love between Christ and his church. Knowing Christ is more important than making a living. Treasuring Christ is more important than bearing children. Being united to Christ by faith is a greater source of marital success than perfect sex and double-income prosperity.”

Children Important Sex Christ Church Perfect Love Is United Knowing Greater Source Prosperity Income Covenant Making A Living Prospering

Author:John Piper

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