Church Quotes - Page 18

Tell me what the world is saying today, and I'll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years.

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.

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

Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.

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

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

The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie s with such Christian seriousness that they are willing to completely alter their lifestyle to raise up disciples for Jesus Christ.

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

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

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

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 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 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!

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.

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

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

Faith, then, is not a set of beliefs about the world. It is rather found in the loving embrace of the world. Because the actual existing church has reduced the Crucifixion and Resurrection to religious affirmations held by a certain tribe, rather than expressions of a type of life, the event they testify to has been almost completely eclipsed.

He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace of the Sepulchre, placed in the Churches, and set upon the Altars, which daily supplies Heavenly Food to the faithful.

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.

A Church worshipping as a Creature of the Word doesn't show up to perform or be entertained; she comes desperate and needy, thirsty for grace, receiving from The Lord and the body of Christ, and then gratefully receiving what she needs as she offers her praise- the only proper response to the God who saves us.

I go to church strapped with a 45 glock.

The church is God's vineyard.

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

The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.