Jesus Christ, is this an NPR convention?
On day one, the Church wasn't for church people because there weren't any church people.
Perhaps no General Council has been more naturally fitted than the Vatican Council to produce a masterpiece of religious thought and literature. No assembly of men since the time of Christ has ever been so representative of Christian and national thought.
The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.
The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.
What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.
The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.
The sermon begins in the parking lot.
Religious freedom certainly means the right to worship God, individually and in community, as our consciences dictate. But religious liberty, by its nature, transcends places of worship and the private sphere of individuals and families.
Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.
I know only one Church: it is the society of men.
Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering.
The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.
Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.
I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.
