Church Quotes - Page 17

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.

A church without the broken is a broken church.

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.

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

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.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

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

I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.

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

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.

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

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

The Church is a perpetual construction site.

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

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.

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.

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.

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?

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

Maybe you are the key to revival in your church.

I am convinced that missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience. Salvation never was easy. We are the Church of Jesus Christ, this is the truth, and He is our Great Eternal Head. How could we believe it would be easy for us when it was never, ever easy for Him?

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.

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