The Church Quotes

The church has paid a terrible price for statistics!

The true church is too different for the world to tolerate it.

You stand out like a fart in a church.

My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.

No time in history has the Church of Jesus Christ gone down!

You are not so good a Christian when you are neglecting a plain duty as when you are performing it. And joining the church is a plain duty for all who mean to be Christians.

A poor believer [monetarily] certainly is looked down upon in certain churches, and yet he may be the richest man spiritually in that church.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

We know that the Constitution wisely separates church from state, but remember: the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub.

There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.

Churches and trains they all look the same to me now they shoot you some place while we ache to come home somehow.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.

In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable.

I do not believe in the creed professed by any church that I know of. Each of these churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my part, I disbelieve them all.

Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

We discussed relationships, abuse, divorce and more. In our society, women have no outlet for these things. The only outlet is the church. And the church can't handle everything. I saw a gap.

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

The proper exegetical principle is this: Mosaic law is still to be enforced, by the church or the State or both, unless there is a specific injunction to the contrary in the New Testament.

You can't have Christ without the Church.

I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.

In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.

Scripture is the royal scepter by which King Jesus rules his church

You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

People are so shocked when they find ... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church and I love God and I love my church.

The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.

We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?

A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.

You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA.

Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.

The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.

I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.

I put myself in the hands of Christ, who is the true leader of the church.

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

God literally moves his throne from heaven. When this happens the church is building a chair, a seat, a place for God to come.

I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace.

My wife and I like to go to church if we're in town. On Sundays, I try to be as chill as I can, whether I'm watching golf or barbecuing.

I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old and playing organ or drums in front of thousands or hundreds of people.

Voices that say the age of the church is over are voices who haven't listened to Jesus.

The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.

All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.

When the church really takes on the humble characteristics of Christ, that's going to lead to revival.

The democratic world has come to a dead end; likewise, the communist world has come to a dead end. But the Unification Church is just beginning!

Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.