Church Life Quotes

• The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Moving, Church

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• The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you

  Hans Conzelmann

  Jesus, Historical, Atheism

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• ...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact - with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.

  N. T. Wright

  Art, Sex, Church

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• Do the Pentecostals look back with shame as they remember when they dwelt across the theological tracks, but with the glory of the Lord in their midst? When they had a normal church life, which meant nights of prayers, followed by signs and wonders, and diverse miracles, and genuine gifts of the Holy Ghost? When they were not clock watchers, and their meetings lasted for hours, saturated with holy power? Have we no tears for these memories, or shame that our children know nothing of such power?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Memories, Prayer, Children

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• The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

  Harvey Cox

  Real, Catholic, Church

  Harvey Cox (2013). “The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective”, p.190, Princeton University Press

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• Remove the centrality-of-Jesus-Christ message from ministry and meetings, and you can forget church life or organic meetings. He must be the center of everything...not in lip service, but in the dynamic experiential whole.

  Gene Edwards

  Jesus, Church, Ministry

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• En nuestros Ashrams de Oriente y Occidente, lugares de retiro espiritual, comenzamos con lo que llamamos "La Mañana del Corazón Abierto", en la que contamos nuestras necesidades. . . . Dedicamos cuatro o cinco horas a esta catarsis. La reacción de un miembro, que la escuchaba por primera vez, fue: "Dios mío, ¿tenemos aquí a todos los perturbados del país?". Mi respuesta fue: "No, tenéis una muestra representativa de la vida eclesiástica honestamente revelada". En la iglesia ordinaria, se suprime por la respetabilidad, por el deseo de parecer mejor de lo que realmente somos.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Country, Spiritual, Morning

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• As long as we see church life as a meeting we’ll miss its reality and its depth. If the truth were told, the Scriptures tell us very little about how the early church met. It tells us volumes about how they shared life together. They didn’t see the church as a meeting or an institution, but as a family living under Father.

  Wayne Jacobsen

  Father, Reality, Long

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• Evangelization through the Eucharist, in the Eucharist, and from the Eucharist - these are three inseparable aspects of how the Church lives the mystery of Christ and fulfills her mission of communicating it to all people.... In addition to the preaching of the message, the consummation of evangelization consists in the building up of the Church, which has no real existence without the sacramental life culminating in the Blessed Eucharist

  Pope John Paul II

  Real, Blessed, Building Up

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• The church lives on the fact that modern research about Jesus is not known amongst the public.

  Hans Conzelmann

  Jesus, Church, Research

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