#church

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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.


Kate Adie


#become #church #england #expected #i

We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.


Peter Akinola


#come #continue #faith #fire #insist

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.


Fred Allen


#changed #choir #church #first #first time

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.


Tori Amos


#because #church #daughter #fact #felt

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.


Pope Benedict XVI


#acceptable #along #attitude #based #church

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest and sacrificial. God hates this wishful dreaming because it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. Those who dream of this idolized community demand that it be fulfilled by God, by others and by themselves. They enter the community of Christians with their demands set up by their own law, and judge one another and God accordingly. It is not we who build. Christ builds the church. Whoever is mindful to build the church is surely well on the way to destroying it, for he will build a temple to idols without wishing or knowing it. We must confess he builds. We must proclaim, he builds. We must pray to him, and he will build. We do not know his plan. We cannot see whether he is building or pulling down. It may be that the times which by human standards are the times of collapse are for him the great times of construction. It may be that the times which from a human point are great times for the church are times when it's pulled down. It is a great comfort which Jesus gives to his church. You confess, preach, bear witness to me, and I alone will build where it pleases me. Do not meddle in what is not your providence. Do what is given to you, and do it well, and you will have done enough.... Live together in the forgiveness of your sins. Forgive each other every day from the bottom of your hearts.


Dietrich Bonhoeffer


#community #strategy #vision #dreams

I am a Christian. My husband and I belong to the Episcopal Church.


Sandy Adams


#belong #christian #church #episcopal #husband

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.


Fred Allen


#crop #days #each #failure #first

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.


Fred Allen


#ask #autographs #church #even #god

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.


Roland Allen


#among #church #clergy #close #difficulties