Church Quotes - Page 79

Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom.

the only door into her bedroom led through the church.

Not everything in church is truth ... And not all truth turns up in church.

I am Catholic but I want to say something to the Catholics. Thank you for some of the bishops who live in rural areas, and are still Catholic. These bishops of the Catholic churches still pray for the poor, and pray for their president who works for the poor, while the leaders of the Catholic Church only defend oligarchy.

When I found out the heads of the Church were up to things that were not good. I left. I say, you know I don't want to be a part of that at all.

Supreme authority in both church and home has been divinely vested in the male as the representative of Christ, who is Head of the church. It is in willing submission rather than grudging capitulation that the woman in the church (whether married or single) and the wife in the home find their fulfillment.

God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price of an episcopal vote; and the condemnation of the Alexandrian primate was artfully represented as the only measure which could restore the peace and union of the catholic church.

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

I was raised in the Church of Christ, which was a very abstinent faith. And I just didn't [drink] - there was never anything that I found seductive enough, I guess, to have a romance with it.

The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.

THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church.

Personal testimony of the gospel and the Church is the most important thing you can earn in this life.

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

The church expect too much from the pastors and there's barely anytime left for prayer.

The church I lead could have the least gifted people, the least talented people, the fewest leaders, and the least money, and this church under the power of the Holy Spirit could still shake the nations for his glory.

We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.

Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act, and that affects everything in terms of how we live the gospel in our daily lives. It affects how we pray, how we study the scriptures, how we worship at church.

My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving.

Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.

The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.

The church was made for mission-God's mission

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do

The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.

The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. They say miracles are withdrawn, but the Holy Spirit is the standing miracle of the church of God to-day.