The Church Quotes

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

All of us have weaknesses, but we also have strengths. God’s Spirit has gifted each of us for the good of the church.

Redeeming culture is the never ending mission of the church.

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some

The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets.

The church has been under-fathered and over-mothered.

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

It is a thoroughly anti-Christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.

Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews

Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.

A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.

Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.

If God can't get the attention of the church house, He's certainly not going to stop by the White House.

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.

Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'

The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty

We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.

I feel like the Church should have the most amazing entertainment and the best music, because we know the author and the source of music and entertainment, which is our Father.

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

He who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever.

So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church.

On quiet nights, when I'm alone, I like to run our wedding video backwards, just to watch myself walk out of the church a free man.

Why create churches for 50-year-olds and let culture have the students?

The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the church's credibility.

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

The Holy Spirit was not sent so we can have bless ups in our churches but so the world can be changed.

There are, in truth, but two denominations upon this earth: the Church and the world.

The existing confusion of conflicting creeds and sects is fitly represented by the term "Babylon," which prophecy (Revelation 14:8) applies to the world-loving churches of the last days.

Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them and how the church prospers!

Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference.

We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.

The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.

The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful.

We've got far too many churches and so few fellowships

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

The church has no authority to preach of inclusivity if we fear altering the look of our church by bringing in the poor.

I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out...

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.

The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.

Healthy church membership means you find your joy in being last, instead of seeking your way and being first.

What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them?

All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."

The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.