Church Quotes - Page 71

Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes.

I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.

Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.

Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken.

I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.

The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.

I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

All these new methods of how to build the church has left me confused.

Consider what it takes for successful businessmen and businesswomen, effective entrepreneurs and hardworking associates, shrewd retirees and idealistic students to combine forces with a creative pastor to grow a "successful church" today. Clearly, it doesn't require the power of God to draw a crowd in our culture. A few key elements that we can manufacture will suffice.

The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers

We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step.

Separation of church and state is the big club pulled out to beat back the Christians .

Singing is really where I got my start in church.

For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.

I encourage you to seek the help of the Savior to resist temptation and to refrain from behavior that would cause you to have to repent or to have your Church membership called into question.

Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among us. They are 'societies' of Jesus.

The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

At the risk of sounding too cliche, I found a really fantastic church. That is what keeps me grounded.

Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?

The Manifesto was not a divine production but something manufactured to outwit the church's enemies.

The modern [endtimes] notion has greatly damped the zeal of the church for missions, and the sooner it is shown to be unscriptural the better for the cause of God. It neither consorts with prophecy, honours God, nor inspires the church with ardour