Church Quotes - Page 43

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

God's desire is not for us to turn our churches and Christian gatherings into hideouts from the world. Rather, they're meant to be places where we become equipped and fortified to minister out in the world.

A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.

Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must flow from love to Christ. It is when a sense of personal communion with the Son of God is highest that we shall be most fit for missionary work, either ourselves or to stir up others.

I just want Christians to embrace the fact that music is made not just for the church, but it's also for the people that need to hear about the love of God.

Power corrupts. If the Church is given too much power, it will become corrupted. So to keep the Church in line with the teachings of Christ, we must make sure that it can never have temporal power. Religion has its place and politics has its own. These two should not be mixed together or the result would be catastrophic.

Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.

Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.)

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the members are active. He [God] appointed some to take oversight of the work so that it might be carried on efficiently. It was never His thought that the majority of the believers should devote themselves exclusively to secular affairs and leave church matters to a group of spiritual specialists.

There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives begin to sink into the same mould of denial and exercise of liberty, something is amiss.

When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God really. You're doing it for yourself, because that's what makes God happy. Amen?

Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.

Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.

To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life.

My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.

There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation.

The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world.

If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

The free will is a pagan goddess that the Church has worshipped for far too long.

Is there a God? If not, what are all these churches for? And who is Jesus' dad?