Church Quotes - Page 110

You can cross the line but you can also be forgiven.

Is your transgression forgiven?

David did not pay for his forgiveness. He did pay for his unforgiveness.

It's very different to live with a mask.

This is one beggar who has found bread telling others where to find it.

As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.

If you choose to be obedient to God, God meets you with divine enablement.

I don't know of a way to have a generous church without a generous pastor.

The Christian life is anything but boring.

You can know you're a Christian if, not are you dealing with your sin before God but is God dealing with you about your sin.

All our good works and good intentions can't solve our sin problem.

The beginning of knowledge is to know thyself a sinner.

Sin regardless of how you get there is a vulnerable and a dangerous place to be. Living in unforgiveness is living in an unsafe place.

If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.

Any sin you cover, God uncovers. Any sin you uncover, God covers.

Ours is a very eclectic offering. We're affiliated with the church but we're not just offering church music. Our philosophy is that we wanted to bring quality music to the entire valley and let everyone enjoy it since we have a fine venue.

How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?

Roman Candles was shown in a church, and so was Eat Your Makeup, so was Mondo Trasho, and so was Multiple Maniacs (1970). It's hard to imagine that churches showed these movies but a few in the '60s, like St. Mark's Church, or on the Bowery, they always were left-wing.

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.

The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.

The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum.

The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.

The Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the enlightenment learning. It was the first time that the Christian church did not have the capacity to keep itself unified as it recast itself, so it split into Protestant and Catholic traditions.

The task of the church, for example, becomes less that of indoctrinating or relating people to an external divine power and more that of providing opportunities for people to touch the infinite center of all things and to grow into all that they are destined to be.