The Church Quotes

I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America.

Attending church is one thing, belonging is another.

I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible.

I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.

Separation prevents the government from determining church policy, whether directly or indirectly.

Churches are healthier and stronger if they assume responsibility both for financing their own programs and for stimulating their members to accept that responsibility.

I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.

These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church.

There's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance.

I still hope. I wouldn't be in this position if I didn't. I love the church. I love the Bible. But I think we're in a time where we're desperately in need of a great reformation.

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum.

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?

Any sin you cover, God uncovers. Any sin you uncover, God covers.

The beginning of knowledge is to know thyself a sinner.

Sin regardless of how you get there is a vulnerable and a dangerous place to be. Living in unforgiveness is living in an unsafe place.

All our good works and good intentions can't solve our sin problem.

If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.

You can know you're a Christian if, not are you dealing with your sin before God but is God dealing with you about your sin.

As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.

If you choose to be obedient to God, God meets you with divine enablement.

This is one beggar who has found bread telling others where to find it.

It's very different to live with a mask.

The Christian life is anything but boring.

When God brings deep conviction and I agree with Him about my condition, God restores my confidence in Him.

You can cross the line but you can also be forgiven.

When you go before God, you can only confess one person's sins.

Forgiveness is not cheap even though it's free.

I don't know of a way to have a generous church without a generous pastor.

I've never missed anything I've given away.

If God can save Paul, He can save anybody. If God could use me, God could use anybody.

If God did not care for you, there would never be a sense of a need to respond.

Is your transgression forgiven?

Sin is too big to be handled alone.

We take in more a week now than we did in two years when I first came to the church.

You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.

Feel the force of forgiveness.

Would you like me to teach you how to trust God? Start with your money.

God exposes your sin...And you see yourself as small as you are in the presence of a holy God.

David did not pay for his forgiveness. He did pay for his unforgiveness.

If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God.

We just planted our 21st church.

We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church.

Forgiveness is just such a big deal.

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.