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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Church, Impact, Responsibility, Faith

"Does the church offer answers for the complexions of 21st century problems?"

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Church, ModernIssues, Guidance, Faith

"I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook."

Bernard Ebbers, Canadian Businessman

Church, Want

"For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church."

Maggie Gallagher, American Writer

Church, Blood, Body, Christ

"The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it."

Richard Cecil, English Clergyman

Church, World

"I find it inconceivable that we're meeting for five and a half days, and there isn't one moment on the agenda to deal with the greatest crisis we've ever had in the church since 1789."

Roger Mahony, American Clergyman

Church, Crisis, Meeting

"Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself."

Arthur Middleton, American Politician

Church, Christ, Mission

"If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you."

Troy Perry, American Clergyman

Church, World, Years

"The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk."

Lance Morrow, American Journalist

Church, Open, Risk

"There is no one true church."

Pat Buckley, Irish Clergyman

Church,

Explore more quotes by Karl Lehmann

"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, Questions

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

Participation,

"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, Danger

"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, Christian, Communication, Interest

"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 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, Church, School, Years

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

Church, Mission

"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, First, Question, Thinking

"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, Faith, Encouraging, Church