“I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.” BelieveLongValuesI BelieveChurchAwarenessInvolvedTasksCatholicMatureExpertise Author:Pope Francis
“The Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the great thing.. is that upon the Church, which has to declare the will of God in its full magnitude, in its unconditional rigor, so that man should know his true measure, is bestowed as a gift, at the same time, the task of forgiving.” KnowsMenShouldDoeCoursesChurchSinTasksForgivingGods WillGreat ThingsUnconditionalMagnitudeRigor Book:God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald Source: God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald
“It's just that the churches have been sleeping for a long time. A lot of people argue that the churches are even dead. I don't believe they're dead, but they've been sleeping, but they, I hope, will wake up, and that's one of my tasks is to make sure they wake up as much as they do before I die.” PeopleBelieveLongHas BeensDiesChurchSleepLong TimeTasksWake UpDon't BelieveArguingBefore I Die Author:Cornel West
“History and the task of the future no longer signify the struggle of class against class or the conflict between one church dogma and another, but the settlement between blood and blood, race and race, Folk and Folk. And that means: the struggle of spiritual values against each other.” MeanSpiritualValuesChurchRaceClassStruggleBloodConflictTasksFolksDogmaSettlementSpiritual Values Author:Alfred Rosenberg
“The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.” JesusNationsChurchSinTasksResurrectionAscensionJesus ResurrectionForgiveness Of Sins Author:Charles Stanley
“[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.” MadeLyingReligionSocialChurchSinChristianityTasksEmptyLipsLawyerCrueltyMade ItHypocrisySinnerAvariceCloaksRiteMisersImmunityDeferenceLip Service Book:Views and Opinions Source: Views and Opinions
“But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these days it is easy to lose sight of that as, like our society itself, churches are becoming more politicized and polarized. Christian faith is a way of life, not an impregnable fortress made up of ideas; not a philosophy; not a grocery list of beliefs.” WayMadeIdeasPhilosophyChristianBeliefEasyLosesChurchBecomingWorshipIntellectualTasksSightListsPursuitThese DaysOur SocietyGroceriesBecoming MoreChristian FaithActs Of LoveFortressesDaily TasksGrocery Lists Author:Kathleen Norris