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"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

Church, Being, Heresy, Philosophy

"I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye."

Patsy Cline, American Musician

Church, First, Goodbye

"Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority."

Charles Hodge, American Theologian

Church, Authority, Christ

"I've been stuck on John Eldredge lately. He's all about being a warrior outside of the church. I hate to think about this kind of stuff - I just like to do it."

John Tesh, American Musician

Church, Being, Hate

"I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches."

Kathie Lee Gifford, American Entertainer

Church, Churches

"Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?"

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Church, Impact, Responsibility, Faith

"Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers."

Max Muller, German Educator

Church, Building, Old

"I found out that many of our Catholics simply don't know what the church teaches, and why, on a lot of issues, and therefore are saying things that they think are okay. They simply don't know."

Roger Mahony, American Clergyman

Church, Saying

"What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part."

George Carey, English Clergyman

Church, Friends, Respect

"There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected."

Gene Robinson, American Clergyman

Church, Gay, Lesbian

Explore more quotes by Karl Lehmann

"I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there."

Agreement

"For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those."

Future

"There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility."

Church

"The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith."

Faith

"Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church."

Life

"The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church."

Time

"But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc."

Church

"Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point."

Participation

"The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel."

Church