Separation prevents the government from determining church policy, whether directly or indirectly.
There is one God and one Christ, and one Church, and one chair founded on Peter by the word of the Lord. It is not possible to set up another altar or for there to be another priesthood besides that one altar and that one priesthood. Whoever has gathered elsewhere is scattering.
Worshipers never leave church. . . we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.
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.
A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.
. . . have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.
Oh, there was a wedding all right. Did I mention that my sister didn't show up at the church either, Mr. Clayborne?
Why is it not possible to build a church in Saudi Arabia where as we in the Netherlands have almost 500 mosques being built; why is it not possible to buy or sell a Bible in any Muslim or most of the Muslim countries, whereas we can buy a Koran here on every street corner? This is the exact example of the fact that Islam is an intolerant society.
Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel.
As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.
Don't try to transport something you don't possess. . . I want this truth to be incarnational.
If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.
Any opportunity to serve in the Church is a blessing.
The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to dispense grace to others.
The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth.
At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week.
So it may be a language that separates you - again, social networks. But second-generation Asian and Hispanics, second, and third and fourth and so on, they are much more likely to be in integrated churches than are blacks or whites.
The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.
If the Deseret News is careful not to offend [Nazi] Germany, and I gather that it is falling backwards on the attempt, it is my guess that first of all the Church is afraid of complete banishment.