The Church Quotes

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.

God's everywhere, but I gotta go down (to church) to see him? Really? And he's mad at me down there, and I owe you money?

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.

Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.

The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course.

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.

Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.

The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.

Because everyone who try a-go to church, and they were trying to teach but they weren't teaching, they was brainwashing. Since I would never call that teaching.

Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost is almost entirely neglected.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.

For where the church is, there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God, there is the church and all grace.

I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.

When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse.

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.

The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun.

Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church.

The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, and we shouldn't complicate the matter.

The only way to build a church, if you have a Bible church, is to preach out of the Bible, teach out of the Bible, read out of the Bible.

The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs.

Jesus did not say that the whole world should go to church.Essentia lly He said that the church should go to the whole world.

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get well.

The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting.

The supreme task of the church is the evangelization of the world. No one has the right to hear the gospel twice until everyone has had an opportunity to hear it at least once.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.

Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.

The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.

The greatest heresy in the American Evangelical and Protestant church is that if you pray and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart, He will definitely come in!

The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan