Go To Church Quotes

I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.

What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

The crowning evidence that he lives is not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled-away stone, but a carried-away church.

The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.

Volleyball is like going to church ... many attend, but few understand.

Don’t allow the Internet to become your congregation. YouTube is a horrible place to go to church.

What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.

I believe in the separation of church and planet.

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

The world does not believe the Bible and the church does not obey it.

The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.

The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.

The Church is a family expecting guests.

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God.

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this church to lead you astray.

The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her and asserts that all who are outside of Her will not be saved.

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.

The Church is designed to nourish the imperfect, the struggling, and the exhausted.

Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.

Christ is not knocking on the door of a sinner's heart, but on the door of a wayward church.

Through some crack the smoke of satan has entered into the Church of God.

Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the gospel made visible.

Until Jesus comes, his resurrection glory in the church is a matter of strength made perfect in suffering.

About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.

When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

A dynamic praying church must be built from the inside out, employing all four levels of prayer: the secret closet, the family altar, small group praying and finally, the congregational setting.

Jesus was born again in the pit of hell. .. The church started when Jesus was born again in the gates of hell.

In a town church the right place for the admission of light.

The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world

The Christian church was born in song.

No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.

It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause.

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence that church is for God, about God, through God, and to the glory of His great Son.

We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.

The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst them we have indisputable proof.

The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer.

The Church must send or the church will end.

It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church.

A scared world needs a fearless church.

New believers are the lifeblood of the church. We can either evangelize or fossilize.

The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.

If you find a perfect church don't join it: You'd spoil it.

By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside which we believe that no one is saved.

I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion.

A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.