Quotes About Church

It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.

The true church is not an organization controlled by the rules of men but a holy collection of living stones with Jesus Christ as the Cornerstone.

No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.

Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.

We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.

Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world.

Even though he grew up in churches, raised by church people, Waterhouse (as must be obvious by this point) never really understood their attitudes about sex. Why did they get so hung up on that one issue, when there were others like murder, war, poverty, and pestilence?

SHE LET US INTO THE house, which had the subtle smell of old wood and old wool—as I used to imagine Victorian homes smelled in Victorian times, before I was recently alerted to the painful truth that actually, at least here in London, they stink of whale oil, patchouli (woven into shawls to keep worms from eating the fabric in transit), and backed-up sewers. I am now convinced everyone here goes to church for the incense.

Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.

Waterhouse is going to fix the church's organ. This project will be sure to have side benefits for his own organ, a single-pipe instrument that needs attention just as badly.

It was an ancient English church of that school of architecture known to scholars as A Big Pile of Rocks.

As to Constantinople. That jewel in the crown of the Byzantine Empire. That continent-straddling stronghold of the Eastern Orthodox Church. That famously inviolable walled city ruled by generations of interbred usurping nut-jobs a pantheon of families so tortuously intertwined as to be the basis of our modern adjective byzantine.

I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm gonna be up in your face if you're gonna knock on my science classroom and tell me they've got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. Because that's when we're gonna fight!

Do you have secret meetings going on in your church? You are in trouble with God!

Individuals and church bodies are often caught in the paralysis of analysis. We

A growing church sees that the work of the ministry should be done by all