#church

There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#authority #back #been #certain #changed

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world. ↗

— Al Green

#church #did #i #learned #more

I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#focus #i #i think #into #need

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state. ↗

— Sean Hannity

#church #constitution #idea #say #separation

If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#any #back #church #curse #drinking

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#experience #go #i #life #life experience

All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#church #church power #dwells #power #seat

All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#administrative #christ #church #church power #directions

Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#call #calls #christ #church #duties

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#church #church power #clergy #denied #faith