#churches

Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#ago #asleep #been #church #churches

Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies. ↗

— Helen Mirren

#churches #flesh #naked #people #pictures

There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#churches #enough #needs #salvation #still

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

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

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches? ↗

— Lemuel K. Washburn

#churches #how #long #ministers #priests

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin. ↗

— Frank Harris

#capital #christian #churches #crowning #degraded

There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#churches #community #continuum #distinguishes #dosage

There are no small churches, just small people. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#just #people #small #small people

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher! ↗

— Robert Duvall

#black #church #churches #ever #going