The Church Quotes

We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things the true Spouse of Christ our Lord, our holy Mother, the hierarchical Church.

God doesn't want you to go to church. He wants you to want to go to church.

The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.

Father, look upon us in Your goodness and kindness, we pray as a church. Help us to love each other.

To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price-and is a rejection of the gift of God's grace.

If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the Church would not today be so plagued with modernistic infidelity.

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman

We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan's lurking places have already been found out.

We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong in the church.

I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.

We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge.

The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.

True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as they regard it), have been unholy and even immoral in their lives.

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?

The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.

Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.

The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.

We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.

It's just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.

Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.

I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact "right" on people. It has to come from the inside. And that's where the church should be working.

The church must constantly promote dialogue.

You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.

The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

I find churches limit me.

A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it.

The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead.

Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

We need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.

Ephesians 3:20 says that God is able to do "exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think." And I'm praying that Ephesians 3:20 will be fulfilled-in my life personally, and also in the church.

I think Jeremiah is for our times. But whether the church in the west will listen to the Word of God today any more than in the chaos of 7th century BC middle east... Only God knows.

Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.

One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor.

I'd argue that people today aren't rejecting Christ so much as they're rejecting the church.

Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials.

The doctrine of the Trinity which was established in the church by the council of Nice, A. D. 325. This doctrine destroys the personality of God, and his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.