Quotes of: Church Keyword

faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts... [you] still experience the same greed, resentment, lust, and anger that everyone else experienced... the lines between sinner and saved [are] more fluid; the sins of those who come to church are not so...

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

To build a church when a school house is needed is to perpetrate a theft upon education. To build a church when a hospital is needed is to take from the parched lips of the sick the cup of relief and from the suffering the merciful hand of help. When...

An Atheist Manifesto

When exactly did this all change, and what were the social and theological factors that led to the change? The answer seems to be in the second century and: (1) because of the consolidation of ecclesial power in the hands of monarchial bishops and ot...

Making a Meal of It: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord's Supper

He held her and rocked her, believing, rightly or wrongly, that Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument or to a little girl’s tears; that she wept over its cruel unpredictability; and that she wept because of...

Pet Sematary

If man will not recognize the inequalities around him and voluntarily, through the gospel plan, come to the aid of his brother, he will find that through ‘a democratic process’ he will be forced to come to the aid of his brother. The government w...

The Teachings of Howard W. Hunter, Fourteenth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

First of all, it's friendship with God that makes possible friendship with one another in a manner that is not that we just like one another, but that were are joined by common judgments, by God, for the good of God's church. Such friendship occurs n...

Stanley Hauerwas

I'll always remember being called by my mother who beckoned me to look at the screen where a young man was being tortured by the church. Bag over his head, rolling on the ground, crying, suffocating, vomiting while the congression continues yelling c...

Merlin

Tell me,' I said. 'Tell me when you notice me.' I notice you going into church,' Joshua said. 'I notice your hair, how blond it is. But how in some light it looks like it has red in it. I notice the way you smell when we're close. And the way you wal...

Carol Lynch Williams

In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

Denial

God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.

Denial

One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church...

English Hours

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

Blankets

I felt angry, frustrated. I felt I didn't belong, not in my, church, not in my home, not in my skin.

Burned

I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.

Bill McCartney

The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age.

Pope Benedict XVI

My mother is not a Catholic, but she's always tried to drag my brother and my sister and I to church from a very young age, and we have always put up a little bit of a rebellion against it.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

Ernest Gaines

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

Adam Bede

The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.

Requiem: A Lament in Three Movements

Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.

Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church