The Church Quotes

A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

I'll go to church with anyone who's willing to smoke pot and look through a telescope with me.

I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.

Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying.

I want the whole Christ for my Savior, the whole Bible for my book, the whole Church for my fellowship, and the whole world for my mission field.

One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.

One of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.

Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.

In the church of my heart the choir is on fire

If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.

What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?

There were days when the Church could club men into obedience by preaching Hell to them, but that day has long passed. The world has outgrown it.

Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.

If I was president of the good old U.S.A., I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.

The universal Church of the faithful is one outside of which none is saved.

You have no idea, right now, what some young person in your church will mean for the cause of Christ. Lean in, encourage, mentor, think big.

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.

We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.

If a pagan asks you to show him your faith, take him into church and place him before the icons.

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.

The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness.

In the end, the church will either declare the truth of God's Word, or it will find a way to run away from it.

Just as you must eat, drink, and breathe to live, you must read the Bible, pray, and be involved in a church to stay spiritually alive and vital. You never will outgrow these things.

The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.

I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.

Prayer is the key ingredient of the church. The enemy hates it when we pray.

You can see in our churches most of the males are pastors. Most of the deacons are males. But if the woman withdrew her support from our churches, you'd have to close the doors.

Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.

The big deal is we think the power is in us individuallythe power is in us collectively. It is in the church.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

The church which is not a missionary church will be a missing church when Jesus comes.

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.

God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

I believe that if there is one thing which pierces the Master's heart with unutterable grief, it is not the world's iniquity, but the Church's indifferences.

Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility.

The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.

God is sufficient in all ages for His church.

Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.

Regrettably, we've made it acceptable to sit in church week after week & do nothing & still call yourself a 'Christian.'

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition.

Maybe that is why there are not a whole lot of problems between the church and worldly culture today, because we are not confronting the culture around us.