The Church Quotes

Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them

If you love god, burn a church.

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.

The Church is built on the rock of Peter, and he who eats the Lamb outside this holy dwelling is reprobate .. .He who eats the Lamb outside this Apostolic See has no part with God!

Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.

How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.

We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.

Every Sunday my dad calls to ask if I went to church. And every Sunday I lie and say: Sorry. Wrong Number.

In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.

I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

I do isometrics in church so while I'm doing my soul some good, I'm doing my body some good, too.

Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.

I go to church strapped with a 45 glock.

One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.

The Pantheon was the first church I'd ever seen that had an open view to God

The true church is not an organization controlled by the rules of men but a holy collection of living stones with Jesus Christ as the Cornerstone.

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.

Church unity comes from corporate humility.

Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.

80% of the people who come into a Christ-following relationship is because a friend, co-worker, family member or neighbor invited them to church.

When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.

The local church is the hope of the world.

A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just succeeded in dismembering Christian unity.

I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".

To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.

I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to him, joined by the bond of the covenant.

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

We go to church buildings that still have a mortgage. Which means the bank owns God's house. Which means that we go and make love to God in a house that Satan owns!

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming

The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ?

The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world are those within the Church.

The Kingdom must be advanced not merely extensively, but also intensively. The Church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man

Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.

It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one’s faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God’s church.

The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel.

You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.