The Church Quotes

I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and school and started singing with his band when I was seven. So I've been singing all my life.

Only one party sticks out in my mind as a kid. It was the best party ever. I was 5 years old, and my mom dressed me up in a church dress and stockings to go to the party and park.

I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.

One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.

Our culture doesn't like being told what to do; that's happening in the Church.

The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.

Jesus was a friend of women, the first and practically the last friend women had in the church.

God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.

We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.

Never let the church become a place where it's just a Las Vegas display place for you to show off.

It is Peter himself that He says, 'You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.' Where Peter is, there is the Church. And where the Church, no death is there, but life eternal.

The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.

I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.

We can find loopholes in a lot of things if we want to bend the rules of the church.

It's not our church; it's God's - it's not our responsibility to run it!

When I found out the heads of the Church were up to things that were not good. I left. I say, you know I don't want to be a part of that at all.

My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving.

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?

We're also a multi-site church, so we have other pastors on other campuses who want to read the message before the video plays on the weekend services. So it just works better for me.

We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.

I need to find a church on Sunday. I need to say 'please' and 'thank you,' 'yes sir' and 'no ma'am.' Do the little things because that's part of being an adult.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.

For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.

Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.

When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.

Let's pray for whole world that there be brotherhood. I hope this journey of the church we begin today is fruitful for evangelization.

The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church.

The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.

Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors.

Emerging church leaders are not impressed by those who defend the Christian faith by promoting definitive answers to convince those who doubt the faith.

In many churches, the message of justification- how to get right with God- is preached over and over again. But much less is said about sanctification- how to live after you're converted.

The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.

My response is that I love the church.

My priorities are leaning more towards family, and I credit my southern upbringing to that. I was raised in the church as well, and God plays a big role in my upbringing and my life.

Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.

One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state . . . Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.

Exsanguinated," said Jace, impressed. "That's a big word." "And you're a big-" "Tsk tsk," he interrupted. "No swearing in church.

Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.

The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way.

I am a God-fearing man. In fact, I don't go to church because I'm afraid I'll run into him there.

My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.

Cast first to your church those visions you absolutely know are the Lord's.

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.