#church

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull. ↗

— Vance Havner

#dull #eleven #end #many #services

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal. ↗

— Lee Hazlewood

#black #church #guess #i #liberal

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

Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call it 'moral blackmail,' but it has nothing to do with morals, only with the implied juvenile threat of having a tantrum unless everyone else gives in. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#church #discipleship #inspirational #religion #theology

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#boast #church #common #farthest #god

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#catholic #catholic church #church #deal #deny

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