The Church Quotes
I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.
A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub and the toastmasters.
Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years!
I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.
Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.
I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote...
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.
Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.
My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.
I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.
If America is ever going to be saved, it will be through a church flowing both in the message of the cross and the miracle of the resurrection.
Evangelism and the local church are inseparable. It's like the Good Samaritan seeking an inn for the one he rescued.
I looked for the church and I found it in the world; I looked for the world and I found it in the church.
The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
Do what your momma tells you to do, go to sunday school, go to church, and when you die, you'll go to Statesboro.
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.
You need to be in a church where the pastors are urging you, not so much to listen to what they say as to turn to the Bible from which they teach.
In some churches today and on some religious television programs, we see the attempt to make Christianity popular and pleasant. We have taken the cross away and substituted cushions.
I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.
The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.
Friend, the church finds its life as it listens to the Word of God. It finds its purpose as it lives out and displays the Word of God. The church’s job is to listen and then to echo.
Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the Christian Church to insure guilt on the part of its followers.
I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.
You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.
Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and sisters, in the church - everywhere.
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.
The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.
The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship.
Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.
The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.
The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper.
We as a church need to decide whether we'll seek the Anointing of God or the God of the Anointing
