Belonging Quote by Pope Francis

Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

— Erwin McManus

The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can…

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that…

— Anonymous

Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ.

— Max Lucado

It is right, therefore, that we not just be called Christians, but that we actually be Christians.

— Ignatius of Antioch

Christianity or any religion doesn't necessarily have to be about a church. You carry your God inside you... But when you're famous and the…

— Jane Fonda

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and…

— Martin Luther

“It is solely the form of Christ that matters, not any form besides Christ’s own. The church is the human being who has become…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.

— R. C. Sproul

We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the…

— C. S. Lewis