C. S. Lewis Quotes

Those who embrace belief in Christ Jesus are bound together in Him, in a real yet incomplete way, in his Body, the Church. Faith is never a solitary activity, nor can it be simply private. Faith in Christ always draws us into a community and has a public dimension.

All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church, require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.

Union of action appears historically to have been the original bond of the Christian church. Whoever was willing to receive Christ as his master, to join His people, and to walk according to their rules, he was admitted to the Christian society. We know that in the earliest church there existed the strangest varieties of belief, some Christians not even believing that there would be a resurrection of the dead.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing.

The Holy Spirit helps us to view others with fresh eyes, seeing them always as brothers and sisters in Jesus, to be respected and loved.

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to him, joined by the bond of the covenant.

Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians.

Just as in one man there is one soul and one body, yet many members; even so the Catholic Church is one body, having many members. The soul that quickens this body is the Holy Spirit; and therefore in the Creed after confessing our belief in the Holy Spirit, we are bid to believe in the Holy Catholic Church.

Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.

Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.

You do not have to be in a church to be saved, but to continue in the things of God, you must be in some type of fellowship with other Christian people.

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.

The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely. The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is His Church; the bridegroom and the bride, two in one flesh. All who dissent from the Scriptures concerning Christ, although they may be found in all places in which the Church is found, are not in the Church; and again all those who agree with the Scriptures concerning the Head, and do not communicate in the unity of the Church, are not in the Church.

Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone.

There is only one Church, and the responsibility for missionary work is universal. 'Every member a missionary.'

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, and we shouldn't complicate the matter.

We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world.

Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and what came was the Church.

Love the church because Jesus loves it.

I hesitate to add, but I will, that this is fun. God means Christianity to be fun. There is to be a reality of love and communication in the Christian-to-Christian relationship, individually and corporately, which is completely and truly personal.

... our reality teaches us that, as Christians, we must create a Church of the poor, that we don't need a Church imposed from outside which knows nothing of hunger.

It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.