#church

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If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.


Richard John Neuhaus


#available #church #culture #editorials #general

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.


Richard John Neuhaus


#church #conflicts #eyes #i #open

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.


Richard John Neuhaus


#church #described #emerge #ever #expressed

The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)


Flannery O'Connor


#inspirational #wisdom #inspirational

I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.


Joel Osteen


#church #feel #i #i feel #i feel like

There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.


Joel Osteen


#big #church #come #coming #community

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.


Aaron Paul


#acting class #actor #actual #church #class

All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.


Orson Pratt


#any #authority #baptize #christian #churches

Our greatest fear as individuals & as a church should not be of failure, but of suceeding at things in life that dont really matter.


Francis Chan


#church #life

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.


Robert Rainy


#been #certain #church #churches #consistency