Church Quotes - Page 26

Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.

The church is the gospel made visible.

Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

The Church is that one wherein the true word of God is preached, which Christ left to His Apostles, which the same Church hath always observed, the doctors preached, and Martyrs and confessors witnessed. This is the Church I believe to be true.

The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth.

The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.'

The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

There's no possibility for vitality in the church without fidelity to the gospels. If you look at the Churches throughout the world, throughout the Western world, where radical reform has been attempted, the Church has collapsed and almost disappeared. The vitality in the Church, the young people who are here in their tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands possibly, young people who belong, who adhere strongly to the central tradition of Christ and the Church.

Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of God’s power or presence or purity.

Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity. But church is difficult. Sooner or later, though, if we are serious about growing up in Christ, we have to deal with church. I say sooner.

Don't let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway.

The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.

Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?

The Church is where it is today because it has decided that the advertising agents know better than the Holy Spirit of God.

Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.

You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.

Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .

Some churches would rather die than to get out of the comfort of the past.

I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.

I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.