Church Quote by Thomas Becket

All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his…

— Charles Hodge

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“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

For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members,…

— C. S. Lewis

The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church…

— Anonymous

The Churches belong together in the Church. What that may mean for our ecclesiastical groupings we do not know. We have not discovered the…

— Hugh Martin

“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

“The Church is a living body; continuously active, continuously performing Christ in the myriad contexts within which it operates. It comprises those conformed to…

— Andrew Davison

The Church is the Body of Christ, and the Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. He fills the Body, directs its movements, controls its…

— Samuel Chadwick

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, rightly conceived, is the whole covenant people called to serve in the world. The clergy are also part of the laity, and…

— Franklin Littell