#churches

A Christian's duty is to win souls for Christ. It would seem to me that tearing down a church you disagree with is like shooting holes in someone else's overloaded lifeboat to prove it's not as safe as yours. (from "Bullies, Wolves, Sheep and Sheepdogs) ↗

— Tom King

#churches-faith #the-golden-rule #faith

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher! ↗

— Robert Duvall

#black #church #churches #ever #going

Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#barren #been #catholic #churches #especially

Let Catholics build their own churches and works. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#catholics #churches #own #their #works

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#democracy #dullness #failure #general #general welfare

No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#community #conscience #i #i think #just

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. ↗

— George Whitefield

#churches #heathen #jesus #jesus christ #mere

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#church #churches #closed #down #merged

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

#adapt #altered #been #beginning #believers

I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God's children. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#children #churches #esteem #every #gathering