Church Quotes - Page 27

No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.

I always had an intelligence with me, I was always in the streets, I was always trying to do good. I was always looking for something to guide me. In the beginning church wasn't it.

All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church.

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

After listening to modern tirades against the great creeds of the Church, one receives a shock when one turns to the Westminster Confession... and discovers that in doing so one has turned from shallow modern phrases to a "dead orthodoxy" that is pulsating with life in every word. In such orthodoxy there is life enough to set the whole world aglow with Christian love.

In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.

Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.

What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.

There is nothing the Church of today needs so much as Spiritual Power; and there is nothing which we can have so easily, if only we are prepared to pay the price.

My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.'

Rock concerts are the churches of today.

The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.

Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.

The devil doesn't care how big your church is - he cares how influential it is.

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!

One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.

In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory.