“It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.” BookSoulChurchRiskCatholicListsPunishmentRemoveImmortalForbiddenImmortal SoulPale Blue Dot Book:Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say one church is better than fifty. I have tried to remove the plural form churches from my vocabulary, training myself to think of the church as Christ did, and as the early Christians did. The metaphors for her are always singular - a body, a bride. I heard one gospel preacher say it like this, as he really wound up and broke a sweat: "We've got to unite ourselves as one body. Because Jesus is coming back, and he's coming back for a bride not a harem.” ThinkingNeedsBodyChristianFormJesusChristChurchHeardTrainingMetaphorCornersWoundsBrokeNot SureFiftyRemoveSweatPreacherVocabularyComing BackBridesCongregationHarem Author:Shane Claiborne
“For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power....When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.” ChildrenEndsStatesGovernmentSpiritFoundChurchInfluenceModernCenturyTheoryOppositesFunctionClaimsRevolutionaryRemoveEducateSovereignBehalfContradictoryChurch And StateAbsolutism Author:Lord Acton
“There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power. But it has the support of Scripture and, especially, of our Lord's own words; it has always been held by the Christian Church, and it has the support of reason.” IfsReasonChristianChurchChristianityLordSupportHellLaysScriptureDoctrineRemoveOur LordChristian Church Author:C. S. Lewis
“The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its end when rebels act against it and disturbers of the ecclesiastical unity, especially obstinate heretics and heresiarchs, cannot be restrained by any other penalty from continuing to derange the ecclesiastical order and impelling others to all sorts of crime ... When the perversity of one or several is calculated to bring about the ruin of many of its children it is bound effectively to remove it, in such wise that if there be no other remedy for saving its people it can and must put these wicked men to death.” PeopleIfsMenMeanChildrenEndsOrderChurchWiseCrimeUnityBoundsScarySentencesRuinsSavingWickedRemoveRebelRemedyContinuingPenaltiesHereticObstinateWicked ManDeath SentencePerversity Author:Pope Leo XIII
“The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.” WayLawEvilJesusChristChurchRemoveSpheresRight Way Book:The Cost of Discipleship Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“I think one of the reasons our court system wants to remove The 10 Commandments is because The 10 Commandments reminds us we are sinners.” ThinkingWantReasonChristianLeadershipChurchCourtSinnerRemoveCommandmentsCourt System Author:Johnny Hunt