At last, giving me the boat's sail for a bed, he stretched himself out on the jagged rocks, and slept soundly as the unsanctified in a comfortable pew of a church; --I wish the benches were softer, and the cushions higher, as then more people might be tempted to take a nap; it is my only reason for never going.
Edward John TrelawnyStichwörter: sleeping churches church-going
He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.
Bruce RobinsonStichwörter: religion atheism architecture agnosticism churches buildings
The work of the church is not survival. She exists to fulfill the Great Commission.
Brother AndrewStichwörter: christianity churches witnessing christian-testimony
I think that churches would be places of greater intimacy and growth in Christ if people stopped lying about what we need, what we fear, where we fail, and how we sin.
Rosaria Champagne ButterfieldStichwörter: christianity churches
If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be equally critical of evangelical (and especially American) Christianity's modernity and its appropriation of Enlightenment notions of the autonomous self. Indeed, many otherwise orthodox Christians, who recoil at the notion of theological liberalism, have unwittingly adopted notions of freedom and autonomy that are liberal to the core. Averse to hierarchies and control, contemporary evangelicalism thrives on autonomy: the autonomy of the nondenominational church, at a macrocosmic level, and the autonomy of the individual Christian, at the microcosmic level. And it does not seem to me that the emerging church has changed much on this score; indeed, some elements of emergent spirituality are intensifications of this affirmation of autonomy and a laissez-faire attitude with respect to institutions.
James K.A. SmithStichwörter: christianity theology institutions doctrine churches foucault emergent-church nondenominational
Go to church to learn about forgiveness; come back to become a forgiver! Go to church and learn about kindness; come back to become a kind person! If things go like that, you will be a true image of Christ after going to church only 10 times on 10 Sundays!
Israelmore AyivorStichwörter: kindness church forgiveness food-for-thought christ christians image learn churches kind choir forgive sunday pastor sundays bishop apostle preach christ-like israelmore-ayivor true-christians 10 accept-christ arc-bishop do-the-word doers-of-the-word forgiver kind-person love-the-lord ten ten-times
All the others had the wrong smell – floor polish for the Low, somewhat suspicious incense for the High. Deep in the leather armchair of his soul, Mr. Young knew that God got embarrassed at that sort of thing. But he liked seeing nuns around, in the same way that he liked seeing the Salvation Army. It made you feel that it was all all right, that people somewhere were keeping the world on its axis.
Terry PratchettStichwörter: humor inspirational churches
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