The Church Quotes

The Kingdom must be advanced not merely extensively, but also intensively. The Church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man

The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ?

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming

I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe and not a mission.

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.

God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and thus to come closer to the truth; a truth that I was unable to discover either at school or in church.

Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.

Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church's crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

If the church is to be missionary, she must be spiritual; and if the church is to be spiritual, she must be missionary.

I don't think God cares if you are rich or poor. God loves you anyway. But if you want to be rich, then choose your church & preacher carefully.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Church hoppers are like wandering dogs. If they are not regularly patted on the head, they will go elsewhere until they are.

The election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state.

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

A church that likes power likes prayer.

Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

I believe alot of churches in America are not churches.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries, and if the pope continues this way, I will go back to praying and go back to the church, and I'm not joking.

The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation.

The church is not here to meet our needs. We are the church here to meet the needs of the world.

Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.

The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.

The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right.

The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

Maybe you are the key to revival in your church.

It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.

The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

Unless we members of the Church do all we can to preserve the freedoms we have within the bounds of the laws of God, we will be held accountable.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

The church's or Christian group's methods are as important as its message.

For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old.

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

The church doesn't seek apologies and we don't give them.

Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.

Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church received from Christ to guard, protect, and preach.