Quotes on Church

The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment, saying within herself: 'If I do but touch His garment I shall be whole' (Mt. 9:21). So the Church confesses her wounds, but desires to be healed.

Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.

It is imperative that the entire Christian community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a militant atheism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres. The seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life.

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all.

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

If Jesus Christ is the head of the church and hence the source and goal of its entire life, true growth is only possible in obedience to Him. Conversely, if the church becomes detached from Jesus Christ and His Word, it cannot grow however active and successful it may seem to be.

I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.

It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission - God’s mission.

I make a forceful and urgent call to the entire Catholic Church, and also to every Christian of other confessions, as well as to followers of every religion and to those brothers and sisters who do not believe: peace is a good which overcomes every barrier, because it belongs to all of humanity!

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

The challenge is to make the church's yes to life concrete and effective. The struggle will be long, and it needs each one of you. Place your intelligence, your talents, your enthusiasm, your compassion and your fortitude at the service of life!

It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.

The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.

Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.

Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England

As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence.