Church Quotes - Page 14

• Lovers of Norfolk churches can never agree which is the best and I think one is either a Salle or a Cawston man.

  John Betjeman

  Men, Thinking, Lovers

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• I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag of lesbian. I'm not bragging, I'm not preaching, but I don't deny it . I had to face society, the Church, which says damn gay people ... it's absurd. How do you judge someone who has been born that way. I did not study to be a lesbian. Neither was it taught to me. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world. I've never slept with a man. Never. I'm pure, I don't have to be ashamed ... My Gods made me so.

  Chavela Vargas

  Eye, Fighting, Pride

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• In the first place, the church can ask the state whether its actions are legitimate and in accordance with its character as state, i.e., it can throw the state back on its responsibilities. Secondly, it can aid the victims of state action. The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering of society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community. The third possibility is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Responsibility, Character

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• It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Strong, People

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• The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.

  Bertrand Russell

  Catholic, Desire, Facts

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.43, Routledge

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• We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful results. . . . The British State considers it the duty of an Englishman to kill people who are not English whenever a collection of elderly gentlemen in Westminster tells him to do so. . . . Church and State are placable enemies of both intelligence and virtue.

  Bertrand Russell

  Elderly, People, Gentleman

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• A church is not a Fortune 500 company. It's not simply another nonprofit organization, nor is it a social club. In fact, a healthy church is unlike any organization that man has ever devised, because man didn't devise it.

  Mark Dever

  Men, Organization, Healthy

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• The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

  Jurgen E. Schrempp

  Home, Office, Building

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• I have performed my duty to my God, my country, and my family. I have nothing to fear in approaching death. To me it is the mere shadow of God's protecting wing . . . Here I will rest in quiet and peace beyond the reach of calumny's poisoned shaft, the influence of envy and jealous enemies, where treason and traitors or State backsliders and hypocrites in church can have no peace.

  Andrew Johnson

  Country, Jealous, Hypocrite

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• When I talk about the pain and hardship of a scientist's life, I'm speaking of more than existential angst. Galileo's work was condemned by the Church; Madame Curie paid with her life, a victim of leukemia wrought by radiation poisoning. Too many of us develop cataracts. None of us gets enough sleep. Most of what we know about the universe we know thanks to a lot of guys (and ladies) who stayed up late at night.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Pain, Sleep, Night

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As soon as a man stands up and says he is right or his church is right, and all others are wrong, he is himself all wrong. He does not know that upon the proof of all the others depends the proof of his own. Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. I do not mean the sentimental statement that all men are brothers, but that one must feel the oneness of human life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Brother, Mean, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.68, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present conception of the Church-with its sacraments, its hierarchy, and especially its claim to infallibility-is to be found in Christ's words or in the conception of the men of his time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Names, Hierarchy

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”

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• The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.

  Josh McDowell

  Teaching, Apologetic, Downfall

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• The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum.

  John Stott

  Turns, Spread, Ads

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Thessalonians”, p.16, SPCK

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• Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Church Music, Modern, Music Is

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• The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation.

  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

  Christian, Roots, Revelations

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• Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Mad, Wicked, Groups

  "Unreasonable behaviour" by David Beresford, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2007.

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• The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible as the word of God, and in the Church (this Church or that) as the interpreter of that word.

  Joseph Campbell

  Christian, Faith In God, Century

  Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Masks of God: Creative Mythology”, Penguin Group USA

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• We cannot be content with an evangelism which does not lead to the drawing of converts into the church, nor with a church order whose principle of cohesion is a superficial social camaraderie instead of a spiritual fellowship with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

  John Stott

  Spiritual, Jesus, Father

  John Stott (2015). “TNTC Letters of John”, p.54, SPCK

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• You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right.

  Son House

  Use, Ifs

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• The invasion of the Church by the world is a menace to the extension of Christ's Kingdom. In all ages conformity to the world by Christians has resulted in lack of spiritual life and a consequent lack of spiritual vision and enterprise. A secularized or self-centered Church can never evangelize the world.

  John Mott

  Christian, Spiritual, Self

  John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”

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• Evermore the Law must prepare the way for the gospel. To overlook this in instructing souls is almost certain to result in false hope, the introduction of a false standard of Christian experience, and to fill the Church with false converts... Time will make this plain.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Law, Soul

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• I am interested in Scripture and theology. This is an interest that I can assume I would share with a pastor, so that makes me a little bit prone to use that kind of character, perhaps, just at the moment. Then there is also the fact that, having been a church member for many years, I am very aware of how much pastors enrich people's experience, people for whom they are significant. I know that it's a kind of custom of American literature and culture to slang them. I don't think there is any reason why that needs to be persisted in.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Character, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

  Malcolm D. Lee

  Spiritual, Growing Up, Grows

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I was baptized Episcopalian when I was maybe two years old and we went to an Episcopalian church. When we moved to Georgia, we started going to a Lutheran church and I fell in love with the church there - Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Douglasville, Georgia. I really have a home there.

  Elana Meyers

  Home, Years, Two Year Olds

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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