Quotes About Ecclesiology

#1. This may be the most valuable and the most challenging thing we can learn from Calvin's ecclesiology today: that the church is not something that we form of our own accord. It is not a product of our reaching out to God, but a gift of God reaching out to us.107

Michael S. Horton

#2. The Christian experience is not primarily formed by our liturgy, doctrine, or ecclesiology, as important as those might be. We are formed by the dangerous stories of our great hero.

Michael Frost

#3. So what are you going to tell her?"
"A little help?" I pleaded. "What does she want to know?"
He shook his head, grinning wickedly. "That's not fair."
"No, you not sharing what you know-now that's not fair.

Stephenie Meyer

#4. Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.

Gene Mauch

#5. Government ... may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another ... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality ...

Abe Fortas

#6. For God so loved the world, their father would say, he gave his only begotten son. But what about his daughters, I wondered. What did God do with his daughters?

Jacqueline Woodson

#7. Shut up. Asshole. (Shahara) I live for your endearments. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. I don't understand why Christians are taking such a bashing ... and why do we glorify people that do destructive things?

Kevin Sorbo

#9. Bella you are my life now
hate me for who I am I don't care at least im not pretending to be someone im not- Kristen Stewart

Stephenie Meyer

#10. Happiness, if you think about it, is the biggest conundrum we face. The pursuit of it is why we do basically everything that we do, and yet, none of that effort is necessary: it's the simplest choice of changing our state of mind.

Brianna Wiest

#11. Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.

N. T. Wright

#12. Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

Norman Vincent Peale

#13. If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;
be worthy of the grace of God.

William Wordsworth

#14. When we get into a relationship of any kind, it is because we want to share, we want to enjoy, we want to have fun, we don't want to be bored. If we look for a partner, it is because we want to play, we want to be happy and enjoy what we are.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#15. Pastors and Bible teachers go about their work in communal settings, where they listen to as well as deliver sermons, hear as well as speak, and gain biblical insights from their parishioners as much as they pass them on.

Peter J. Leithart

#16. Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet shared by the whole Body of Christ, in the Spirit of Christ.

Thomas Merton

#17. Governments everywhere, including here in the Unites States, have created ever-expanding bureaucracies that regulate nearly every aspect of our lives.

Richard Ebeling

#18. Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.

Stanley Hauerwas

#19. You can never expect to live a positive life if you continue to hangout with negative people. The way you think ... you will live!

Timothy Pina

#20. Neither humans nor the Gods that they have created are superior to old Mother Nature.

Abhijit Naskar