Church Quotes - Page 2

Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it believes is false. If you also don't want to be corrected, then you might as well leave the church and spend your time at the bar and brothel. But if you want to be saved-and remember that there's another life after this one-you must accept correction.

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.

If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing, because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere. As there is no one who lives after seeing him, there is also no one dying after seeing him. Who finds Him, stays forever with him.

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.

Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church.

In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.

The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in the New Testament. Any message that attracts you which does not bring glory to Christ is the message of a seducing spirit and the man giving it is in deception.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.

Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

I want to throw open the windows of the Church so that we can see out and the people can see in.

Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.

The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

The Church is not the building, its the people, its not just the gathering, its also the scattering.

Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.