The Church Quotes

The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.

In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring.

I condemn polygamy, yes, as a practice, because I think it is not doctrinal. It is not legal. And this church takes the position that we will abide by the law.

The singing of hymns and the rendition of selections from the great sacred oratorios by ward choirs all enhance the spirit of worship.

We can't know at any given time how God will bless our faithful witness. So the apparent numerical growth of the church is never a good guide to how faithful we have been in evangelism.

If you are not a member of the church you regularly attend, you may well be going to hell.

Every believer is commanded to be plugged in to a local church.

Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

Some of you are sitting at home saying, 'I don't need a church to love God,' and I am here telling you that you are so wrong.

It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.

When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God really. You're doing it for yourself, because that's what makes God happy. Amen?

No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.

Next to being one in worshipping God there is nothing in this world upon which the Church should be more united that in upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States

If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish

It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true.

One family--we dwell in Him, One church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream of death.

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.

(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.

When a church is truly convinced that prayer is where the action is, that church will so construct its corporate activities that the prayer program will have the highest priority.

I want you to know he's coming to the church before he comes FOR the church. He's gonna perfect the Church so the church can be the Image, and be him, and be his representation.

Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.

I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and what came was the Church.

Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.

A church determined to hold only those doctrines that a secular world finds adequately comprehensible is a church that will hold to no central vital Christian teaching whatsoever.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.

Can any church help us to win a war? If you can't help us win a war, then please don't press us.

There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation.

At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.

The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.

The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world.

And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.

In time, the church will actually be organized more as a military force with an army, navy, air force, etc.

The free will is a pagan goddess that the Church has worshipped for far too long.

I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others and trying to be kind. It's something I still have to work on every day.

I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.

Veblen once asked a religious student the value of her church in kegs of beer.

Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.

A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.

Is there a God? If not, what are all these churches for? And who is Jesus' dad?

Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.