Karl Lehmann Quotes

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference.

The church, by reason of her role and competence, is not identified with any political community nor is it tied to any political system

It is you who have called us unto this office; but being thus called we have our authority from God;

The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.

It should be recognized that this Church is not a social club. This is the kingdom of God on the earth. It is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Its purpose is to bring salvation and exaltation to both the living and the dead.

I don't know any institution in this country that... carries more influence than the church.

It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board.

Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

Though the world may often appear to be more charitable than the church, it is crucial to remember that, for the church, the care of the poor cannot be separated from the worship of God.

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him.

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.