Sentences with phrase «helpful than churches»

, John Madison; «Lighthouses are more helpful than Churches», Benjamin Franklin

Not exact matches

Each of these can cause us to be more critical than normal and often manifest as false critique in the form of «Church would be better if...» The problem with better is that it is too subjective to be a helpful aspiration in this context.

Obviously, such groups can be less - than - helpful when they divide everyone up by age group and marital status, but I've also seen them represent what is most powerful about church as members become deeply invested in one another's lives.

If the Christian church has something helpful to say to the present, complex economic world, how can it put together needed words and ideas that are more than cliches?

This point presumably helps to explain why, from later patristic times to the introduction of a wholly vernacular liturgy in 1970, the Church's hierarchy judged the ceremonies of Mass to be pastorally more helpful than the words.