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Quotes About Church

The Bible does not say we should aim at numbers but rather urges us faithfully to proclaim God's message in the boldness of the Holy Spirit. This will build God's church God's way.
~ Jim Cymbala
The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord.
~ John Nelson Darby
We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan's lurking places have already been found out.
~ Jonathan Edwards
God has lots of children in the church today; I'm honestly not sure He has many friends.
~ Mike Pilavachi
With the Synod Assembly, therefore, I heartily recommend to the Church's pastors and to the People of God the practice of Eucharistic Adoration, both individually and in community
~ Pope Benedict XVI
The cry of a baby is God's voice: never drive them away from the church!
~ Pope Francis
The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.
~ Pope Francis
A church that won't listen to the Word of God is a church already lost.
~ Robert Godfrey
God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this difficult hour in our archdiocese. Let us be worthy of it.
~ Oscar Romero
The doctrine of the Trinity which was established in the church by the council of Nice, A. D. 325. This doctrine destroys the personality of God, and his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
~ J. N. Andrews
Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again.
~ James MacDonald
I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God.
~ Jeremiah Wright
The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.
~ John Stott
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
~ Pope Francis
God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.
~ Ambrose
The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.
~ Arthur Middleton
O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.
~ T. S. Eliot
One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him.
~ Theodore L. Cuyler
I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.
~ Fantasia Barrino
So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.
~ Francis Schaeffer
Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.
~ Gene Robinson