Quotes About Church

If you have a sin problem you don't run from the church, you run into it. p.73

child. My fondest memories of times together were our Sunday mornings in church—just the two of us. When we were in God's sanctuary, we could safely open our hearts and let our souls be free and vulnerable. Church was our refuge, and Jesus, as my mother taught me, was our rock.

The church is near, but the way is icy, The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the State forever separate.

Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar of money appropriated to their support no matter how raised, shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian school...Leave the matter of religion to the family circle, the church & the private school support[ed] entirely by private contribution. Keep the church and state forever separate.

An agreeable opinion is accepted as true: this is the proof by pleasure (or, as the church says, the proof by strength), that all religions are so proud of, whereas they ought to be ashamed

much of what the church calls sin is simply being human.

These are things," Trudi's father told her long before she was old enough for confession, "that the church calls sins, but they are part of being human. And those we need to embrace. The most important thing--" He paused. "--is to be kind.

Issues of the Fairmount News from the early 1920s are replete with accounts of surprise appearances by hooded Klan representatives at local church services

It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

I believe in the Church and in loyalty to a local church. I am not in favour of that view of the invisible church that makes one invisible at church on Sunday morning.

A church may have the bones of organization and sound theology. It may have the body of a large membership. But, if the breath of the Holy Spirit is not on it and in it, then it is only Sardis, having a name to be alive but dead.

Tamara looked all around the inside of the car. "Yeah, I see I need to come to your church," Tamara said. "Because what I'm hearing at my church only puts me to sleep. Sleep is good for dreaming, but I'd prefer to see my dreams become reality. I want to touch my dreams. I want to sit down in the seat of my dreams. I definitely see that I need more of the right tools in life to do it right.

the mission of the church is not to "spread the church but to spread the kingdom";

The church is not a voluntary association to be governed as its members see fit, but a dwelling place of God. It ought to be structured according to the orders of its commander, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Show me a church composed of real people who aren't afraid to acknowledge and talk about their flaws, and chances are, it's a growing church. If, on the other hand, vulnerability is met with the cold legalism of others, then prayerfully consider finding a place where authenticity is the focal point.

Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years!

The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.

It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.

The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

If your church isn't winning souls, I hope you go out of business

The business of the church is to tell and embody a story