Church Quotes - Page 81

Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.

The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.

It is Peter himself that He says, 'You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.' Where Peter is, there is the Church. And where the Church, no death is there, but life eternal.

Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.

I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.

The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

To regain her lost power the Church must see heaven opened and have a transforming vision of God.

Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God.

I would like to live to see the time when the men and woman of God - holy, separated and spiritually enlightened - walk out of the evangelical church and form a group of their own; when they get off the sinking ship and let her go down in the brackish and worldliness and form a new ark to ride out the storm.

In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group.

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, "Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?

My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.

I don't want to interpret the pope's words, especially as I am one of those horrible people who fell away from the Roman church after Martin Luther.

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and ancient and outworn creeds.

The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches.

Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty.

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.

To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human conservatism that tends to form around the Church the way barnacles gather on the hull of a ship, all this talk about dynamism sounds foolish.

The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.