Church Quotes - Page 19

There is neither man or woman in this Church who is not on a mission. That mission will last as long as they live, and it is to do good, to promote righteousness, to teach the principles of truth, and to prevail upon themselves and everybody around them to live those principles that they may obtain eternal life

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

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

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.

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 you love god, burn a church.

I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty.'

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

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

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

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

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

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time. Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession. And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.

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

The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved or disproved, the Church, which like former impostors had then gotten possession of the State, had everything its own way. It invented creeds, such as that called the Apostle's Creed, the Nicean Creed, the Athanasian Creed, and out of the loads of rubbish that were presented it voted four to be Gospels, and others to be Epistles, as we now find them arranged.

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.

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

I believe alot of churches in America are not churches.

God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

Church unity comes from corporate humility.

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

The doctrine of the Church cannot be fully understood unless it is tested by mind and feelings, by intellect and emotions, by every power of the investigator. Every Church member is expected to understand the doctrine of the Church intelligently. There is no place in the Church for blind adherence.