Quotes About Church

As Don Everts says in his book Jesus with Dirty Feet, "Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.

I remain convinced to this day that if we continue to lose young people in the church, it won't be because we made the gospel too hard but because we made it to easy. We

So for those of us who have nearly given up on the church, may we take comfort in the words of St. Augustine: "The Church is a whore, but she's my mother." She

I once heard a pastor say, "The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown." I

It's not always a bad thing to struggle. In fact, if you want to find the church alive, you look at places of struggle. Whenever we have triumphed and dominated, we get sick. Christianity is best when it is humble.

God's deepest longing is for the church to be united as one body. In Jesus' longest recorded prayer, he prayed that we would be "one as God is one." As one old preacher said, "We gotta get it together, because Jesus is coming back, and he's coming for a bride, not a harem.

Wouldn't we all go to a church that believes in ordinary fools and ragamuffins and whose gospel is actually good news? I

I remain convinced to this day that if we continue to lose young people in the church, it won't be because we made the gospel too hard but because we made it to easy.

a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of. And

When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God. After all, what is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life—especially one's politics?

At that moment, we decided to stop complaining about the church we saw, and we set our hearts on becoming the church we dreamed of.

To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.

It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

Ik stak één straat eerder door naar 4th Avenue, omdat ik niet langs de kerk wilde lopen; er zat soms een stenen waterspuwer op die me de stuipen op het lijf joeg. Het was niet die waterspuwer zelf die ik eng vond, maar het was dat "soms" waar ik de zenuwen van kreeg. Waterspuwers zijn beeldhouwwerkjes, ze horen deel uit te maken van een gebouw. Als er een zit, hoort die daar altijd te zitten en niet af en toe.

I know people will say that it's because of the accident that I came back to church-well, they're right. I'm not too proud to know when a problem is bigger than I am.

think I'll go to church with Mama this Sunday. / know people will say that it's because of the accident that / came back to church- well, they're right. I'm not too proud to know when a problem is bigger than / am.

Weekly church attendance alone lowers the divorce rate significantly—roughly 25 to 50 percent, depending on the study.

Israel, as a nation, is a type of the church. But this is the case, not because the church is merely the replacement of Israel, but because Christ, as the true seed of Abraham and the fulfillment of Israel, unites in himself both spiritual Jews and Gentiles as the "Israel of God" (Gal 6:16). There is continuity, but also important discontinuity. Now that Christ has come, only those who have faith and have experienced spiritual rebirth are his people and part of his family.

You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.

There's a way to accomplish the separation of church and state and at the same time accomplish the social objective of having America become a hopeful place and loving place.

Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

By the time we get to church, I need church cuz I've been yelled at by everyone in the family.

I still hope. I wouldn't be in this position if I didn't. I love the church. I love the Bible. But I think we're in a time where we're desperately in need of a great reformation.

We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church.