The Church Quotes

The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

It was of tremendous comfort. I always said my prayers at night. My mother taught actually me to say prayers at night but most of it came from the church.

Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.

I bet any Sunday could be made as popular at church as Easter is if you made 'em fashion shows too. The audience is so busy looking at each other that the preacher just as well recite Gunga Din.

Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.

Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.

It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of faith that absolutely supports the church.

The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today.

The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences.

Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

We knowingly chose to protest in the Christ the Savior Cathedral, the most important church in the country, to denounce the connection between the church and Putin.

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

All too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows

All churches are an echo of this—the Cathedral of Nature.

We must realize that even though the sacred text of the scriptures could never be improved or changed, flesh certainly can!

If the church is acceptable to this present ageand is not suffering reproach, then it is not the true church that our Lord founded.

The church should not reflect pop culture but portray godly attributes. The church should not seek pleasures but seek after God.

The church is blending into the community by embracing what the world enjoys and, in turn, bringing inside the church the world’s ideas and interests.

Christ’s church is a place to grow people up in the Lord, not to enhance our leisure time.

The church is in turmoil today. The church is not to reflect the world but to be a portrait of Jesus Christ.

No church is perfect, but don’t let that discourage you. Someone has said that if you ever find one that is, it will stop being perfect the minute you join!

The church should not be pampered but rather prepare for, and expect, persecution—for it is Christ’s body on earth.

When the church begins to entertain the flock and respond to the cult of self—it is diminished to a mere community center.

The fiercest storm is taking place in some of our churches—the unbelief and disobedience of God’s Word.

Satan] invades the Sunday school, the Bible class, and even the pulpit. He even invades the church under cover of an orthodox vocabulary, emptying sacred terms of their biblical sense.

In thousands of churches [people] are led astray theologically. Thus spiritually and morally they are drifting aimlessly, without compass or guide.

The church in America has been deeply infiltrated by the “world, ” and in the process it is beginning to copy and resemble the world in many of its activities.

Preaching the whole council of God involves man’s environment and physical being as well as his soul. There is no doubt that the church is in danger of getting off the main track and getting lost.

God did not ordain that the church should drift aimlessly in the seas of uncertainty without compass, captain, or crew.

The church should be setting the pace. The church should be taking its proper place of leadership in the nation . . .God help the church to wake up!

The church holds the key to revival. It is within our grasp.

We have been trying to solve every ill of society as though society were made up of regenerate men to whom we had an obligationto speak with Christian advice.

God’s church is a Bible-centered church, and it grows strong under persecution.

Before three thousand people were brought into the church on the day of Pentecost, the disciples had spent fifty days in prayer, fasting, and spiritual travail.

Unless the church quickly recovers the authoritative biblical message, we may witness the spectacle of millions of Christians going outside the institutional church to find spiritual food.

What right does any church have even attempting to approve of lifestyles or certain acts for which God prescribed the death penalty in the Old Testament?

Statistics indicate that the church is rapidly losing in the population explosion. There are fewer Christians per capita every day.

The church has lost its ability to discipline members who live openly in sin. Consequently, we have lost our witness in the community.

The church is a storehouse of spiritual food whereby the inner man is fed, nourished, and developed into maturity. If it fails, it is not fulfilling its purpose as a church.

It could be said that going to church will not make one a Christian. But . . . refusing to fellowship with believers will not make you one either.