Best failing & church Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."”

“The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.”

World Church Failing Credit Tails Corrections Procession

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish”

Ifs Would Be Found Church Failing England Parish Church Of England

Author:John Keble

“We in the church have humility and contrition to offer the world, not a formula for success. Almost alone in our success-oriented society, we admit that we have failed, are failing, and always will fail.”

World Church Failing Humility Offers Formulas Formula For Success Contrition

Book:Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?

Source: Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?

“I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people.”

People Heart Church Failing Aim Squares

Author:Reggie McNeal

“Surely there is a fitness in the institution of the Lord's Supper as a standing memorial by which the church at large may commemorate the grandest act, and by which the heart of each individual believer may be reminded of his dearest friend. You, who have learned to love the Saviour, will prize His ordinance for the Saviour's sake. You who rejoice in the salvation purchased by His dying, will not fail with gratitude and faith to show the Lord's death until He come.”

“When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.”

People Christian Church Failing Calling Notion Christian Faith

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.”

Social Church Failing Fullness

Author:Martin Luther

“Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?”

Men Kind Law Church Failing Talent Highest Court Stations Discretion Regularity

Book:Epistolary correspondence. Letters from August 1714, to September 1724

Source: Epistolary correspondence. Letters from August 1714, to September 1724

“Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.”

Children Church Sin Failing Down And Discouraged

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“So when you say who does Christ die for? He died for the church, okay. I don't think God's death on the cross through Christ was a failure, if you are saying that. I do not believe that anybody he intended to die for is failing in that area.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Doe Dies Christ Church Failing Areas Crosses Okay Died

Author:Rick Warren

“No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.”

Today Community Church Numbers Failing Large Numbers

Author:Felix Adler

“Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his rules. And family education and order are some of the chief means of grace. If these fail, all other means are likely to prove ineffectual. If these are duly maintained, all the means of grace will be likely to prosper and be successful.”

Ifs Mean Littles Christian Order Christ Church Successful Grace Failing Ought Prove Chiefs Being Successful Christian Family Family Education

Book:The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - I

Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - I

“Our society trains us to think of marriage as a contractual arrangement. If one party fails to fulfill his or her end, the contract is null and void. Increasingly children are raised in a contractual environment. When contractual thinking dominates our horizon, we can even make Jesus or the church an asset we think we can manage.”

Ifs Thinking Children Ends Jesus Church Party Environment Failing Train Raised Manage Our Society Horizon Assets Contracts Void Arrangements Null

Author:Michael Horton

“The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails.”

Men Mind Believe Stills Shows Earth Christian Church Prayer Attitude Failing Century Medicine Convinced Cures Enlightened Flats Christian Church

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“Our spiritual immutarity never shows up more than in our lack of praying, be it alone or in a church prayer meeting. Let 20% of the chior members fail to turn up for rehearsal and the chior master is offended. Let 20% of the church members turn up for a prayer meeting, and the pastor is elated.”

Shows Past Spiritual Turns Church Prayer Failing Masters Praying Members Meetings Pastor Offended Rehearsal Church Members Prayer Meeting

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“My plea is that as we continue our search for truth, particularly we of the Church, that we look for strength and goodness rather than weakness and failings in those who did so great a work in their time. We recognize that our forefathers were human. They doubtless made mistakes. Some of them acknowledged making mistakes. But the mistakes were minor when compared with the marvelous work which they accomplished.”

Humans Looks Made Church Mistake Failing Goodness Weakness Accomplished Making Mistakes Minors Marvelous Made A Mistake Forefathers Search For Truth

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“The political structure in different countries has different origins, different developments. Something which suits one country extremely well would perhaps fail completely in another. Germany, through the long centuries of monarchy, has always had a leadership principle. ... The position of the Catholic Church rests now, as before, on the clear leadership principle of its hierarchy. And I think I can also say that of Russia, too.”

“When I look around, the biggest way in which we are failing to care for those in need is through ignoring climate change and acting like it doesn't exist. As a Christian, I believe that is something the church needs to know.”

Knows Way Needs Believe Looks Care Christian I Believe Church Acting Failing Climate Climate Change Those In Need

Author:Katharine Hayhoe

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