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I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent.

I am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you do not prevent it. I beg you, do not do me an untimely kindness. Allow me to be eaten by the beasts, which are my way of reaching to God. I am God's wheat, and I am to be ground by the teeth of wild beasts, so that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church

See that ye all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as ye would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. [] Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. [] Whatsoever [the bishop] shall approve of, that is also pleasing to God, so that everything that is done may be secure and valid.

Let Catholics build their own churches and works.

Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom have a vested interest in [him] and who are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him.

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?

Why create churches for 50-year-olds and let culture have the students?

The church must capture and keep the minds and hearts of students.

Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

The church should be the safest place on the planet to talk about anything, including same-sex attraction.

The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.

If there is no deep yearning for a life that is well pleasing to Him, if there is no _x000D_stimulating desire to know Him and His Word, church membership is just like _x000D_a young man falling in love with a furnished apartment and marrying an electric _x000D_stove, a refrigerator, a vacuum cleaner, a garbage disposal, and a wet mop! _x000D_That is just about all it amounts to. Let's stop playing church today and start _x000D_loving Christ and living for Him!

A poor believer [monetarily] certainly is looked down upon in certain churches, and yet he may be the richest man spiritually in that church.

We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.

Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.

The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.