Go To Church Quotes

Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.

Yes, I wanted to win! I wanted the belt! I'm a belt mark! I want to sleep with it! I want to wear that and nothing else to church on Sunday!

Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.

Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.

Neither I nor anyone in the Church would ever tolerate hatred of or prejudice towards any of the Lord's children.

When I get to Heaven they aren't going to see much of me but my heels, for I'll be hanging over the golden wall keeping an eye on the Lisu Church!

The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter.

The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were ‘Repent!’

The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth.

We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.

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.

The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years. Getting rid of it was long overdue.

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

The position that God promised the church is to influence the society. We are to govern the attitude and the conduct and the motivation of the human race.

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

Don't let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway.

Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?

Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.

I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it.

Better to be cast out of the Church than to deny Christ.

The Church is where it is today because it has decided that the advertising agents know better than the Holy Spirit of God.

Neither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of [the Virginia Tech massacre] is coming and this evil sodomite nation is doomed.

Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.

The church is the gospel made visible.

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.

When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.

It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.

The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.

Rock concerts are the churches of today.

The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.

Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of God’s power or presence or purity.

In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.

Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.

This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel This is sanctified sick, this is player Pentecostal. This is church front pew, Amen, pulpit, What my people need and the opposite of bullshit.

Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.

The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.

I always had an intelligence with me, I was always in the streets, I was always trying to do good. I was always looking for something to guide me. In the beginning church wasn't it.

God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it.

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.

I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people.

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

There is nothing the Church of today needs so much as Spiritual Power; and there is nothing which we can have so easily, if only we are prepared to pay the price.