Quotes About Church

The goal was not only to teach people the Bible and minister to people personally and spiritually, but also to build a church to be community focused.

Small clubs aren't as lucrative, but spiritually, they're my favorite places to play. It's a homey kind of thing. I refer to it as the Church of What's Happening Now.

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we don't really fully know how Christ loves the church.

The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church."

I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.

I believe that marriage is a representation of Christ and the church and when Christ and the church are unified, they are the strongest and most attractive to those that don't know Jesus.

Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.

We're having a little disagreement. What I want is a big church wedding with bridesmaids and flowers and a no-expense-spared reception and what he wants is to break off our engagement.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

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.

According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.

The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this church to lead you astray.

Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying.