The Church Quotes

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.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church.

Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.

Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.

I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can put another's name on its member's roll; and no man can cross another's name off that roll.

The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory.

God speaks through a variety of means. In the present God primarily speaks by the Holy Spirit, through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church.

If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.

It would be a godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't suffered it for hundreds of years. She is growing rich and lagging behind. Going back.

Regular expository preaching of the Bible is the staple diet of a healthy church.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.

This crusade to separate church and state is only one expression of my raison d'être. I'm an atheist, but I'm also an anarchist, and a feminist, and an integrationist.

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.

Evangelism was not a program in the Jerusalem church; it was a way of life. The believers' lives and behaviors created such favor with the population of Jerusalem that people we drawn to the Lord.

The Lord said that He was giving us a new president who is better than we deserve. He represents a reprieve from a New World Order that the Church is not prepared to face at this time.

The thing is, dressing up, going to church, dropping a twenty in the offering plate, those things are all well and good, but that doesn't make you a Christian.

Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.

I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in trance. I just stared at the clock in the center of the church. When I finished, everyone clapped and started crying.

You can't compartmentalize unforgiveness. You can't control sin. You can't manage sin. Sin is never satisfied with the amount of you it possesses.

The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple

Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.

One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.

On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

The fact that the Church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women, is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love.

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.

The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion with the Orthodox Churches.

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church.

God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.

I wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church and state. Church and sin-- it's a monstrous problem.

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

I don't trust the church or the government, and anything the church or the government tells me I assume to be a lie or a conspiracy, until proven true.

When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.