Church Quotes - Page 7

Some go to church to take a walk; some go there to laugh and talk. Some go there to meet a friend; some go there their time to spend. Some go there to meet a lover; some go there a fault to cover. Some go there for speculation; some go there for observation. Some go there to doze and nod; the wise go there to worship God.

There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.

We millennials have been advertised to our entire lives, and we can tell when somebody is just trying to sell us something. I think church is the last place I want to go to be sold another product.

The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation.

My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.

Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.

Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity ... When the Great One comes with His disciples and initiates we shall have ... the restoration of the Mysteries and their exoteric presentation as a consequence of the first initiation.

Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

National Socialism would have every German decide for himself on spiritual questions, just as in the days of Frederick the Great. The National Socialist state gives to the church what belongs to the church, and to the state what belongs to the state.

Remember: Christ is calling you; the Church needs you; the Pope believes in you and he expects great things of you.

We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate and inconsistent with the ... society that America is supposed to be.

I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do nothing about it. Truths that are not experienced are, in effect, more like theories than truths. Whenever God reveals truth to us He is inviting us into a divine encounter.

It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may wake someday and take offense, or the waking God may draw us out to where we can never return.

When serious people of good faith disagree, they've got to go back into the narratives and come at it again. One of the problems in the church is that people are not willing to do that. People have arrived at a place where they think they have got the answer.

I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn't find him there. The I went to a mosque and I didn't find him there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he was.

The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.

The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.