#church

I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#could #federation #feel #god #got

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#church #dry #half #ice #instead

There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#authority #back #been #certain #changed

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world. ↗

— Al Green

#church #did #i #learned #more

My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind. ↗

— Alister Hardy

#england #heart #mind

Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right. ↗

— Steve Harvey

#alabama #carolina #chicago #church #connected

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal. ↗

— Lee Hazlewood

#black #church #guess #i #liberal

Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call it 'moral blackmail,' but it has nothing to do with morals, only with the implied juvenile threat of having a tantrum unless everyone else gives in. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#church #discipleship #inspirational #religion #theology

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#boast #church #common #farthest #god

All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#church #church power #dwells #power #seat