The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it. — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
God has established three institutions within human society: the family, the state, and the church. Each institution has a sphere of authority… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The true Church is not an institution to be kept apart from the world because the world "is common and unclean," but… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
The church is an institution of music and of production and performance, and it has to do with taking people to places… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
“In our discussion of the need for balanced ministry fronts in chapter 23, we looked at the five models of church proposed… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
