Apostolic Quote by Pope Pius IX

“That it is Peter, the rock of the church, who incurs guilt here immediately after his own confession to Jesus Christ and after his…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“On all other Christian societies the Church of Rome pronounces a sentence of spiritual outlawry. She alone is the Church, and beyond her pale…

— James Wylie

Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy…

— Pope Pius XI

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him, though otherwise…

— Saint Augustine

“The Scriptures picture the church as an essential, chosen organism in whom Christ dwells; the reality is that people view the church as an…

— Greg Ogden

Christ, invisible to the bodily eye, manifests Himself on earth clearly through His Church ... The Church is the Body of Christ both because…

— John of Shanghai and San Francisco

“This Church is the Lord's vehicle for crucial doctrines, ordinances, covenants, and keys that are essential to exaltation, and one cannot be fully faithful…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

If, therefore, the Greeks or others say that they are not committed to Peter and to his successors, they necessarily say that they are…

— Pope Boniface VIII

“The church is not a brick-and-mortar structure. The church is made of flesh & blood. Followers of #Christ are the church.”

— Eric Samuel Timm

“The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the…

— Virchand Gandhi

Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.

— Martin Luther