Church Quotes - Page 40

The basic trouble with the church today is her unworthy concept of God... Our religion is weak because our God is weak... Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending on her concept of God.

The earth itself is their church; the vast, open sky its ceiling.

The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the Jews.

If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.

We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.

We need to be skilled into knowing God and His Word, then act as excellent translators of these things to the people in our churches.

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.

More tears are shed in playhouses than in churches.

If outside forces and culture were the reasons behind declining and non-influential churches, we would likely have no churches today. The greatest periods of growth, particularly the first-century growth, took place in adversarial cultures. We are not hindered by external forces; we are hindered by our own lack of commitment and selflessness.

I only sing in my church choir. Except the other night, I stole the show at karaoke night.

The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.

My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.

On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.

According to the New Testament, God wills that the church be a people who show what God is like.

people say churches are half empty, they're not, they're too big

A 2008 poll of 35,000 Americans revealed that 57% of Evangelical church attenders believe that many religions can lead to eternal life.

The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

I believe that you understand a church only when you kneel in it.

Fewer and fewer people are attracted to the church service and more and more people are attracted to the service of the church.

The church should provide a setting in which people can express their questions.

Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will follow.

But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a cure. It doesn't offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation.

I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth.