Church Quotes - Page 28

Don't come to church for an emotional experience. Come to church for the truth.

The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam.

It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.

The Church is a virgin, the bride of one Spouse, Who is Christ, and this Church does not allow herself to be violated by any error; so that, throughout the whole world there may be for us one uncorruptedness of a single chaste communion.

The Church and the world have a great need of eucharistic worship. Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love. Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Him in adoration and in contemplation that is full of faith and ready to make reparation for the great faults and crimes of the world. May our adoration never cease

We are compelled, our faith urging us, to believe and to hold—and we do firmly believe and simply confess—that there is one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is neither salvation nor remission of sins.

There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.

A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple

If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.

This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.

Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our emphasis is on paying; theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!

The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church - but not studied.

The disciples worshipped the most high Lord Who had come down from heaven, made the earth into heaven and gone up again whence He came, having united things below with things above and formed one Church, at the same time heavenly and earthly, to the glory of His love for mankind.

If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church.

There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.

If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."

Where's Barack Obama when Christmas references are being erased from civic calendars? Is he crying out in defense of religious liberty and our First Amendment? Nope. He's as silent as a church mouse. And animosity toward religion continues to grow.

The end for which Christ lives, and for which He has left His church in the world, is the salvation of sinners.

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not shatter it. Although the elements of this world constantly batter and crash against her, she offers the safest harbor of salvation for all in distress.

Regular expository preaching of the Bible is the staple diet of a healthy church.