#church

The church must always show compassion, always. ↗

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#before #born #church #father #go

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#authors #best #churches #colleges #common

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#campaigning #christians #church #emphatically #justice

The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#creation #fellowship #god #hearing #joy

I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#could #federation #feel #god #got

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#peace #preserve #purity #way

I want a big church wedding. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#church #i #want #wedding

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#christianity #church #grandparents #i #important

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary. ↗