Canon Quote by Peter Drucker

The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the…

— Andy Stanley

The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not…

— Nancy Gibbs

In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system of rule.…

— Hans Kung

“authority of the church. It was created to counter the drift from this important doctrinal foundation by”

— R.C. Sproul

“The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.”

— Thomas E. Woods Jr

It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church…

— George Eldon Ladd

The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work.

— Roland Allen

“Though the Reformation originated with the Lord's fresh move through various reformers, in a rather short time the resulting churches became institutionalized with a…

— Henry Hon

In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece where…

— Richard Halverson

The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state.

— H. J Eckenrode

Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries.…

— Elaine Pagels

It was in that bubble after Vatican II when it seemed like the best time ever to grow up Catholic. It was a time…

— Rob Sheffield