The Church Quotes

Many today view love and doctrine as enemies, or at best as rivals.

This ain't my first rodeo!".~R. Alan Woods [1999]

If opposites attract why is the church trying so hard to mirror the world?

I experienced one of the common miracles of the Christian life. Our spirits recognized each other.

Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing

Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.

The fact that you don't feel Him [God] holding you doesn't change the fact that He still is.

Jesus did not command us to "develop" leaders. He commanded us to make "disciples". The world "develops" leaders, the Church "disciples" them. The two are not the same.

Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church...

The problem with the church is the church

The cross has two sides to it. One side is what Jesus did for us. He forgave us our sins. The other is the God side. God now lives in man!

Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins...

Church, in the New Testament sense of the word, is not a meeting we attend, but a group of which we are a part, and a group we serve within.

To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression.

God directs his people not simply to worship but to sing his praises “before the nations.” We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers

The aim and the result of faithful, fruitful, and fulfilling service is to make God famous.

The church the Bible described is exciting and adventurous and wrought with sacrifice. It cost believers everything, and they still came.

Missional leaders not only feel the burden of God's mission but they also act on the burden and act upon it sacrificially.

When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay

It is not the spirit of wealth, of learning, or of culture that can make the church of value, or a power for good in the world, but the spirit of Christ only.

Church History is the record of God's gracious, wonderful and mighty deeds, showing how by his Spirit and Word he rules his Church and conquers the world.

God makes his gospel attractive through his people.

The three phases of Santa belief: (1) Santa is real.(2) Santa isn't real.(3) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

Don't be a spectator in the kingdom of God, find something that you can do, at-least even going to church is one of them

They will call you immoral if you dare to describe their immorality

A monk was told that his father had died. He said to the messenger, "Do not blaspheme. My Father cannot die.

Whenever we use our religion, as individuals, or as groups within the church, to act in tandem with political and economic groups that arrest the voice of truth or destroy others, then we are Judas.

There should be an absolute discipline in the house of God

Unity despite diversity is exactly what defines Christianity as distinct from and antithetical to all other religious belief systems". ~R. Alan Woods [2006]

Cathedrals Luxury liners laden with souls Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

It was founded upon a rock.

The nearer the church the further from God.

Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there And 'twill be found upon examination The latter has the largest congregation.

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.

My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.

In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.

Some churches make intercessory prayer part of their weekly schedule. If that's not the case at your church, find another person in the faith to intercede with or go before God on your own.

The way I did the first album... the way I wrote 'Church'... was just to trust my instincts with the music and let it kind of do what it does.

Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.