#church

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#call #christianity #churches #communism #communist

It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world. ↗

— Angelo Scola

#church #determine #difficult #does #fault

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#always #church #cultural #ethical #into

The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe. ↗

— Wellington Mara

#changed #church #club #convenience #country

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

#age #being #born #born-again #catholicism

We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians. ↗

— Pete McCloskey

#believed #church #court #environmentalists #independence

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#any #church #contempt #down #get

Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded. ↗

— Keith Miller

#army #book #church #day #i

Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he came to establish will always be a minority affair. ↗

— Edward Norman

#always #called #came #chosen #christ

The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#bit #church #corporation #culture #evangelical