The Church Quotes

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.

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

We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning.

A church without the broken is a broken church.

The church used to confess its sin, now it confesses its right.

When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and cry to God for a Revival of Religion.

Is all the world jails and churches?

Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.

At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week.

The Church is a perpetual construction site.

Worldliness in the church is a lot more pervasive than a lack of passion for evangelism. Nevertheless, one of the results of worldliness is a waning enthusiasm for evangelism.

My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.

I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.

Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.

It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.

The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.

Most people today in our churches are lost, and they demonstrate that they are lost because their entire Christianity is nothing more than, 'They made a decision.'

The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

Church only benefits you when you participate in the presence of God.

My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties.

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the Church.

It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.

The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.

It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.

We all claim to worship the same God, so why don't we fellowship together? ... The only thing that keeps us from fellowshiping together are the church buildings, the organizations.

I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.

The church is God's vineyard.

Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.

Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.

We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God.

Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal.

the first day i shot dope was on a sunday. i had just come home from church got mad at my mother cuz she got mad at me. u dig?

...the Church is the merciless heart of the State.

Show me a church or a Christian organization that emphasizes prayer, and I'll show you a ministry where people are excited about Jesus Christ and are witnessing for Him.

Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment

If we wait for the needy to walk through our church doors, we may wait a long time. God doesn't wait for people to come to Him. He goes to them.

When will we realize that one of the greatest mission fields in the West is the pews of our churches every Sunday morning?

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them.

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.