Church Quotes - Page 121

I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards.

As I look back now, I really feel like God has called me not just to speak into the lives of believers but, even broader than that, to speak into the lives of people that are outside of the Church.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.

I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

The church was always very adept at incorporating all the different artistic disciplines. What we call the church is actually an assemblage of different artistic forms, whether in its Biblical literature, or sculpture, painting, music.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.

I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.

I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.

My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.

In the Netherlands now, I imagine it's legal to marry your own children. Get them pregnant, and you can abort your unborn grandbabies in a free clinic that used to be a church.

Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; 'Light momentary affliction.'

God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally.

Saturate your preaching with the gospel in the church, so that you people speak gospel in the world.

If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.

It's not easy to follow Jesus' example, and if you go to church it doesn't mean you're automatically doing it.

I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama’s hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and his voluntary membership in Reverend Wright’s decidedly anti-Semitic church. Furthermore, his campaign website featured anti-Semitic posts.

I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced.

I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.

I encounter many Christians who've been raised in the church but never realized that there's a cohesive storyline from Genesis to Revelation.