#church

A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it. ↗

— Claudio Hummes

#contemporary #contemporary world #dialogue #humanity #jesus

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty. ↗

— Claudio Hummes

#church #context #development #dignity #effort

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#church #hat #into #new #only

God’s side is determined not by geography, but by those who do His will. If Germans, English, Japanese, and Americans prayed right, they would all be praying for the same intention: Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. And what is that Will? The reign of Justice and Charity in the hearts of men. Through a prayerful contemplation of war we will see not soldiers of different nations in combat, but one great family, quarreling, fighting, wounding, and all in need of the peace and charity of Christ which we hope to obtain by our supplications. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#prayer #the-church #family

For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#commonwealth #consider #day #desire #fulfilled

I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#bit #church #i #leaders #look

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#church #churches #closed #down #merged

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides. ↗

— Saint Ignatius

#appears #believe #black #church #decides

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#been #cash #church #down #heaven

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age. ↗

— Peter Akinola

#american #been #bury #church #deadly