Church Quotes - Page 35

In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before. You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.

A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.

I feel like the Church should have the most amazing entertainment and the best music, because we know the author and the source of music and entertainment, which is our Father.

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.

The fact is, brethren, we must have conversion work here. We cannot go on as some churches do without converts. We cannot, we will not, we must not, we dare not. Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.

There are, in truth, but two denominations upon this earth: the Church and the world.

The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it, the whole gospel got twisted around it. Instead of being God’s big message of saving love for the whole world, the gospel became a little bit of secret information on how to solve the pesky legal problem of original sin.

The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.

Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.

Why create churches for 50-year-olds and let culture have the students?

You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church. Each generation of Christians is the seed of the next, and degenerate seed is sure to produce a degenerate harvest.

The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone!

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.

God literally moves his throne from heaven. When this happens the church is building a chair, a seat, a place for God to come.

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.

When God measures a church, He begins with its depth not its breadth, with its substance not its style.

I say to the Christians and to every missionary on the reservations, you're welcome to have a church here if you can support yourself. But if these churches can't support themselves, then take the hint and quit using our poverty for your direct mail solicitations.

We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.

What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?

I put myself in the hands of Christ, who is the true leader of the church.