The Church Quotes

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?

The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.

The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her.

The highest honor in the church is not government but service.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Some churches would rather die than to get out of the comfort of the past.

The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.'

You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.

If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord.

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

The devil doesn't care how big your church is - he cares how influential it is.

Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam.

If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.

I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.

A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.

The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church - but not studied.

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil

The biggest cause of society's change today is that people no longer believe in orthodox religion. They go to church, but they no longer believe in God.

In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.

It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.

Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.

My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.

If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."

No matter what the realm of leadership – the home, the workplace, the church, or the community – the vision is crucial. Leaders must funnel their faith into action so that life-changing results.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

Don't come to church for an emotional experience. Come to church for the truth.

The end for which Christ lives, and for which He has left His church in the world, is the salvation of sinners.

There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.

If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.

I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a real book of history that can be trusted.

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.

There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.

Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.