Attraction Quote by Pope Benedict XVI

If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as…

— David Bosch

When the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it. It is then that the world is made to listen to…

— Anonymous

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is…

— Christopher Dawson

The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly…

— Anonymous

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

— Blaise Pascal

If the Church would have her face shine, she must go up into the mount, and be alone with God. If she would have…

— Frederic Dan Huntington

If the church is to impress the world with the deathless hope of the everlasting Gospel, she must be animated by that hope herself.

— Frank W. Boreham

The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.

— Pope Benedict XVI

“The Church pleaseth it selfe too much which scorns and disdaines other Churches, as unworthy of her Communion, for some weakness in their understanding,…

— John Davenant

The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.

— Pope John Paul II