#church

I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#church #i #i am #jesus #official

If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have been the devil’s most brilliant move and science, God’s. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#church #devil #god #religion #science

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

In serving others, the church will save itself from becoming nothing more than a spiritualized 501c3 not-for-profit, self-centered corporation, organized for the benefit of donor tax exemption. Serving others will remind us of our identity and call us out from this self-absorbed, selfish world to be the people of God on a journey following his Son, Jesus. ↗

— Ronnie McBrayer

#service #religion

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

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#christian #christian religion #churches #deliberately #enemy

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood. ↗

— Leverett Saltonstall

#childhood #church #father #i #mother