The Church Quotes

And I say to you, you are Kepha, and on this kepha I will build my church.

The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

I think the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mindset.

Churches and mosques you shall not heed / The religion of Albanians is Albanism

You do not have to be in a church to be saved, but to continue in the things of God, you must be in some type of fellowship with other Christian people.

Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn-around.

The church is in the hope business.

There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.

When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.

Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.

The church didn't know what to do with Ray Charles or Al Green. And so they were kind of ostracized.

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.

I've been stuck on John Eldredge lately. He's all about being a warrior outside of the church. I hate to think about this kind of stuff - I just like to do it.

Really, at a time when theyre debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church.

My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.

For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.

O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.

I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.

Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.

The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".

The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction. . . .

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question.

I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him.

I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved.

It's a matter of each of the two churches being very deeply enculturated in its own setting and having difficulty understand the other.

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.

The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world.

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith.

For me, the Church is the enemy.

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square

The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.