Church Quotes - Page 47

I'm a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I'm a nondenominational practicing Christian. I have a lot of faith.

Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?

You need to be in fellowship of a church...If you separate a live coal from the others, it will soon die out. However, if you put a live coal in with other live coals, it will be a glow that will last for hours.

(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.

Once I returned to the Church and began to see the universe as a place that really did incorporate redemption and really tried to understand the implications of there being a God, my identification with the vampires as outcasts, as outsiders and lost souls began to totally wane. It no longer worked for me. I had done it. It had led me to this point.

Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.

New revelations regarding faith or morals ... have always been abhorred and challenged in the Church ... Hence, the Sovereign Pontiffs, the Councils, and the Fathers have been most careful to reject all novelties or new doctrines on matters of faith which differed from those already received.

Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and what came was the Church.

A church determined to hold only those doctrines that a secular world finds adequately comprehensible is a church that will hold to no central vital Christian teaching whatsoever.

Also noteworthy is the increasingly violent struggle against the dogmatic foundations of the various churches without which in this human world the practical existence of a religious faith is not conceivable.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation.

Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church.

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

As a Fundamentalist I had discovered while I was in college that it is possible to dismiss the entire Church as having gone off the rails by about AD 95. That is, we, with our open Bibles, knew better than did old Ignatius or Clement, who had been taught by the very apostles themselves, just what the Church is and what it should look like.

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.

I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.

The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but then the printing press came along and the authorities worried that they couldn't control official thought as easily.

If there was acceptance of the mentally ill in the Catholic Church, the entire Curia would resign!

We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong in the church.