Church Quotes - Page 6

If you limit worship to where you are, the minute you leave that place of worship you will leave your attitude of worship behind like a crumpled-up church bulletin.

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.

When church is over and there's no one there to listen except the only One who matters, do you still have that same passionate joy in your spirit, just to be alone with the Living God?

Any denomination or church group that forsakes inerrancy will end up shipwrecked. It is impossible to prevent the surrender of other important doctrinal teachings of the Word of God when inerrancy is gone.

God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think that we know what ought to be done. We ask God first to bless our feeble efforts, instead of absolutely refusing to go unless God go before us.

The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church

The Church is not a showboat; it's a battleship.

But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.

The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.

You don't have to be in church service to worship, you can be in your own home. You enhance your spirituality, through the instrument of worship, when you really connect with the invisible, almighty God.

I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.

Our young men are going into the professional fields because they don't 'feel called' to the mission field. We don't need a call; we need a kick in the pants. We must begin thinking in terms of 'going out,' and stop our weeping because 'they won't come in.' Who wants to step into an igloo? The tombs themselves are not colder than the churches. May God send us forth.

The Church is the Ship outside which it is impossible to understand the Divine Word, for Jesus spoke from the boat to the people gathered on the shore.

Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

Nothing will divide the church so much as the love of power.

The purpose of our holy and righteous God was to save his church, but their sin could not go unpunished. It was, therefore, necessary that the punishment for that sin be transferred from those who deserved it but could not bear it, to one who did not deserve it but was able to bear it.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.