#church

The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church. ↗

— John Sweeney

#against #attack #cease #choose #church

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops. ↗

— Hans Kung

#church #communion #community #god #hierarchy

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#body #christendom #church #created #creature

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character. ↗

— Johnny Rotten

#character #church #kid #kind #little

The Lord called me to plant a church. ↗

— Bobby Rush

#church #lord #me #plant

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

#communicating #considering #each #generation #gospel

In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#because #christ #church #deemed #early

I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church. ↗

— Giles Gilbert Scott

#case #church #delicate #endeavour #every

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#churches #cottage #easy #good #had

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#am #baptist #became #christ #church